Requiem

by Curtis White

Book Overview

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 ambitious 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564783081
• ISBN13: 9781564783080
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

dark and funny!

I found Requiem to be quite humorous and shocking at the same time. It shows the lighter side of people's badtimes and a world that's full of sex and violence. This book isn't for the easily insulted and closeminded...

this is the strangest book i have ever read

requiem is one of the strangest books i have ever read. the main character the so called "modern prophet" basically goes around collecting interviewing murderers, madmen and others in an attempt at i'm not quite sure. when i had finished it i was scared. this book is not for the faint of heart, in fact this book is not for anyone, the world isn't ready for this book so go away and save your precious sanity DO NOT READ THIS BOOK.

Very Lush And Full Of Dogs

Curtis White's Requiem is one of those rare works that causes you to stop and rethink the possibilities of the modern novel--a difficult feat in this post-everything world. In a way, the structure, based around Mozart's final work of the same name, functions as a balance (or maybe ballast) to the sytlistically disparate sections. These pieces, however, are fused by intent, so collage together to create a whole work that is impressively unified in aim (just as well (if not better) than White's last remarkable novel, Memories of My Father Watching TV). And in the end, Requiem does what a great novel should, it makes you mull over those things which you had forgotten you should have been examining all along.Very lush and full of dogs, it is also hilarious.