They Whisper

by Robert Olen Butler

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New York: Henry Holt, 1994. ISBN: 0805019855. BCE. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Illus. by dust jacket photograph by Barnaby Hall. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction.

Book summary

In Robert Olen Butler's erotic novel, the "they" who whisper are the many women the obsessed hero--Ira Holloway, a middle-aged man with a very jealous wife--has been to bed with. Butler is a womanizer, but one with an exquisitely sensitive appreciation for women's sexuality. His stream-of-consciousness narrative reminiscences take him from his high school years, to the Vietnamese prostitutes he patronized, to his current sexual fantasies and hang-ups. As he luxuriates in the past, he is also, in the present, trying to appease the (understandable) resentment of his wife, who has her own story, and be a good father to his beloved son.

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