Requiem

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 (the invention of the human), to the digital age (post-human). In an America where everyone keeps a secret website, and where a modern Prophet can only weep at the stories he hears, Requiem reveals our past, present and future with wit, sadness, and complete honesty.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 10/01/2001
ISBN: 9781564783080
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.54w x 1.05d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2001 pg. 1323
Publishers Weekly 10/08/2001 pg. 44
Booklist 11/01/2001 pg. 461
Library Journal 12/01/2001 pg. 177