Exquisite Corpse - Hardcover

Brite, Poppy Z.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752802062 ISBN 13: 9780752802060

Publisher: Orion, 1996

Synopsis

Convicted serial killer, Andrew Compton, escapes his execution by controlling his physical self so well that he appears dead, then steals his pathologist's clothes and car and escapes to London. He soon meets up with Jay, and the two embark on an orgy of violence born of love.

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Review

Dennis Cooper "Author of "Frisk, Wrong, " and "Try" Poppy Z. Brite's "Exquisite Corpse" has an intelligence, sweep, nerve, knowledge, and deeply unsettling erotic power that make most other so-called transgressive novels "du jour" seem like romance novels in a grouchy mood.

Peter Straub "Author of "The Hellfire Club" As perfectly named as its author, "Exquisite Corpse" treats the dead human body like a communion wafer. It is Poppy Z. Brite's distinction to have understood immediately that real horror (unlike the make-believe variety which lumbers brainlessly through so many books) has an intimate connection to the most profound emotions, those evoked by an experience of the sacred. She is the only writer I know who could write a guidebook to Hell that would make me want to go there.

Book Description

A Terror Eight title: dark reads for hot summer nights!

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752802062
• ISBN 13: 9780752802060
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256