Sex and Death: Stories
- ISBN-10
- 1770898840
- ISBN-13
- 9781770898844
- Series
- Sex and Death
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-09-03
- Publisher
- House of Anansi
- Authors
- Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs
Description
A provocative and haunting collection of short stories that probe two of the most powerful forces shaping the human experience. The drive for life — for survival and reproduction — and the drive for death — for violence and self-destruction — are the two dominant, instinctive urges of human behaviour. These conflicting compulsions, characterized by Freud as Eros and Thanatos, are also the central themes of great literature. In Sex and Death, some of today’s most compelling writers from around the globe — Kevin Barry, Lynn Coady, Robert Drewe, Ceridwen Dovey, Damon Galgut, Petina Gappah, Sarah Hall, Peter Hobbs, Yiyun Li, Alexander MacLeod, Ben Marcus, Jon McGregor, Guadalupe Nettel, Courttia Newland, Taiye Selassie, Ali Smith, Wells Tower, Alan Warner, Claire Vaye Watkins, Clare Wigfall — explore these challenging themes with honesty, psychological acuity, brutality, tenderness, and empathy, in stories that are illuminating, disquieting, funny, and utterly dazzling.
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Other editions
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- 2012-04-02
- 456 pages
- Ebook
- University of Chicago Press
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- 1999-06-15
- 440 pages
- Paperback
- University of Chicago Press
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