Eventually there forms a love triangle with a hapless Vietnamese twink named Tran (hickory smoked is so crazy). It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one. Brite (Author) 846 ratings Kindle Edition 16.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 140.90 7 Used from 55.01 1 New from 134.19 Paperback 22.99 12 Used from 27.52 15 New from 16.

Reading about what their lives are like and the things they think about during this time period is fascinating and painful. The entire plot of this book circles around gay characters and it is poignant and touching. Eventually the killer cruises a victim who turns out to be just as bloodthirsty (and accomplished) as he is, and the two of them go on their merry way, stabbing and slicing through the New Orleans gay scene. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. Exquisite corpse came out in 1996 and the story takes place during the early years of the AIDS panic.

Woe unto him, for the man on the slab still stirs, and so gains his hideous freedom. The novel begins when some well-meaning autopsy technician, trying to dispel FUD, insists that the shackles are removed from a dead killer with a similar MO.

Breaking news according to a shady Hollywood source of mine, a screenplay of Dahmeresque pas-de-deux 'Exquisite Corpse' is currently being reviewed for production considerations by a major studio.Įxquisite Corpse is based on the interesting factoid that Jeffrey Dahmer's corpse was kept shackled even unto the morgue, so terrifying was his person to the people who handled it prior to his death in prison.

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