After escaping prison, serial killer Andrew Compton heads for New Orleans to pursue the art of what he calls "the art of killing boys". He joins up with a dissolute playboy who has pushed his art to limits even Compton hadn't imagined. Together they set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, whom they cast as the perfect victim.
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After escaping prison, serial killer Andrew Compton heads for New Orleans to pursue the art of what he calls "the art of killing boys". He joins up with a dissolute playboy who has pushed his art to limits even Compton hadn't imagined. Together they set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, whom they cast as the perfect victim.
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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.
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BOOK NEW. DUSTJACKET NEW. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN, ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT, BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW, GLOSSY BRODART. 1ST PRINTING. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. Scarce in dustjacket. Handsome copy.
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.
