Requiem
By: Curtis White.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Pornography -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Requiem is a darkly comic novel about what it means to be human in a culture obsessed with sex and death. With a structure loosely based on the Mass for the Dead, this novel includes letters-to-the-editor, an e-mail correspondence with a porn queen, scenes from the lives of classical musicians, and retellings of biblical stories. In the process, White charts the rise and fall of the Human from the Bible (pre-human), to the Enlightenment (the invention of the human), to the digital age (post-human).

In an America where everyone - including a well-known NPR interviewer - keeps a secret website, and where a modern Prophet can only weep at the stories he hears, Requiem reveals our past, present and future with wit, sadness, and complete honesty."--BOOK JACKET.