A terrifying novel of love and slaughter set in London and New Orleans. To serial killer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from a life sentence in prison, he makes his way to America with the intention of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, he inadvertently joins forces with Jay, a dissolute playboy. They set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, who they deem to be the perfect victim. Moving from the grimy ...
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A terrifying novel of love and slaughter set in London and New Orleans. To serial killer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from a life sentence in prison, he makes his way to America with the intention of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, he inadvertently joins forces with Jay, a dissolute playboy. They set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, who they deem to be the perfect victim. Moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadences of New Orleans' French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a serial killer in this riveting, unforgettable masterpiece of horror.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. A Fine copy that was bought new in 1996 and never read, in a Fine, as New, dust jacket. American First Edition-First Printing with a full number line that begins with a 1. "Exquisite Corpse" is a novel that is shocking and fascinating in about equal measure, in which Author Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites the reader into the mind of a killer. Rest assured, this collectible American First Printing is well protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and will be shipped in a new box. Rest assured, we always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
This book takes you on ups and downs,that you can not imagine it repells you ,then draws you back into needing to finish .I read this in one night not wanting to put it down.Poppy Z. Brite is a very deep and disturbing writer, who makes you want to reach out and touch the charcters in her books, The detail is unreal.