{"product_id":"the-mechanics-of-homosexual-intercourse-stories","title":"The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lonely Christopher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 189\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2011\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] provocative and refreshing debut collection.\" --Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Praise seems superfluous for a book as accomplished, cohesive, and devastating as Lonely Christopher's debut collection, so consider these words admiration instead, and admonishment: if you still think fiction counts for anything, then you should buy this book right now.\" --Dale Peck, author of What We Lost and Time To Say Goodbye\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA selection of Dennis Cooper's Little House on the Bowery series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two boys lie on a bed, one of them is already dead; they listen to Glenn Gould playing Bach and talk about suicide and love. A lonely narrator mourns the end of a relationship and the disappearance of a mysterious object as a frustrated artist jumps out of a moving car on his birthday and runs for the last streetlamp in the universe. Awkward parents and angsty teens negotiate a dark suburban landscape, searching for something they can't name, spelling out balletic sentences of failure and shame. Helicopters menace the night sky, a horse is murdered in a kitchen, victims go missing in swamps of ambiguity, and everybody waits for what the construction of a new road into town will bring: the end of the world or something worse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, a radical map of shortcomings in our daily experiences in the form of a debut story collection, presents thematically related windows into serious emotional trouble and monstrous love. Lonely Christopher combines a striking emotional grammar with an unyielding imagination in the lovely-ugly architecture of his stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936070800\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 8.1 Inches, Length: 5.2 Inches, Weight: 0.43210603352 Pounds, Width: 0.5 Inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e en\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lonely Christopher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53801792405811,"sku":"9781936070800","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/8690173482877.jpg?v=1785980823","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/the-mechanics-of-homosexual-intercourse-stories","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}