Synopses & Reviews
A provocative new short-story collection from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler, Intercourse delightfully reveals what goes through a person's mind at a crucial moment during sex. Smart, provocative, subtle, and erotic, each story is a many faceted gem. Butler dazzles and entertains as he channels the most intimate thoughts of 50 couples, including:
- Adam & Eve
- Bonnie & Clyde
- Pocahontas & John Smith
- Richard Milhous Nixon & Pat Nixon
- Walt Whitman & Oscar Wilde
- Elvis Presley & Holly Singleton (admirer)
- Princess Diana & Prince Charles
- William Jefferson Clinton & Hillary Diane Rodham
- Santa Claus & Ingebirgitta (elf)
Review
"Butler seals the deal with crystalline prose, a dark imagination and some moments of light camp."
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review, April 7, 2008
"...titillating and meaty." —New York Magazine
About the Author
Robert Olen Butler, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, is the author of many lauded works of fiction. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.