Sex and death
Subtitle: stories
By: edited by Sarah Hall and Peter Hobbs
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780062354709
Subjects: Sex; Death; Fiction
Description: "In this provocative and haunting collection of short stories, edited by two masters of the form, a diverse group of contemporary writers probes the nature and connection between two of the most powerful, exhilarating, and terrifying forces that define and shape the human experience. The drive for lifefor survival and reproductionand the drive for deathfor violence and self-destructionare the two dominant, instinctive urges of human behavior. These conflicting compulsions, characterized by Freud as Eros and Thanatos, are also the central themes of great literature. In Sex and Death, some of todays most compelling writers from around the globeKevin Barry, Lynn Coady, Ceridwen Dovey, Robert Drewe, Damon Galgut, Petina Gappah, Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs, Yiyun Li, Alexander MacLeod, Ben Marcus, Jon McGregor, Guadalupe Nettel, Courttia Newland, Taiye Selasi, Ali Smith, Wells Tower, Claire Vaye Watkins, Alan Warner, Clare Wigfallexplore these challenging themes with honesty, psychological acuity, brutality, tenderness, and empathy, in stories that are disquieting, illuminating, funny, and utterly dazzling."--from back cover.
Notes: "First published in 2016 in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber Limited"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Dr Pacific  -- Robert Drewe; title: George and Elizabeth  -- Ben Marcus; title: Fixations  -- Ceridwen Dovey; title: The postcard  -- Wells Tower; title: Evie  -- Sarah Hall; title: The days after love  -- Yiyun Li; title: Where hast thou been  -- Jon McGregor; title: 10-item Edinburgh postpartum depression scale  -- Claire Vaye Watkins; title: Reversible  -- Courttia Newland; title: The news of her death  -- Petina Gappah; title: Visitation  -- Damon Galgut; title: Frank's last days  -- Guadalupe Nettel ; translated by Rosalind Harvey; title: Porto baso scale modellers  -- Alan Warner; title: Fin  -- Lynn Coady; title: In the reactor  -- Peter Hobbs; title: Brunhilda in love  -- Taiye Selasi; title: The closing date  -- Alexander MacLeod; title: The fortune fish  -- Clare Wigfall; title: Toronto and the state of grace  -- Kevin Barry; title: Metaphysical -- Ali Smith.