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Sex and Death: Stories

by Sarah Hall

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"What else is there?" - Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death.The drive for life - for survival and reproduction - and the drive for death - for violence and self-destruction - are the two dominant, insti... Read more

"What else is there?" - Alice Munro, on why so much of her work deals with the twin themes of sex and death.

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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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.9 in
Print pages336
PublisherHouse Of Anansi Press Inc
Publication date September 3, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780062354709
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Sarah Hall
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Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She is the prize-winning author of four novels - Haweswater, The Electric Michelangelo, The Carhullan Army and How to Paint a Dead Man - as well as The Beautifu...

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