Swallowing Clouds
Penguin, $19.95pb, 305pp
Fiction
After the Heat
by Terri-ann White •
The funny ways we have of writing about sex and how rarely it really works. The memory of how it feels, what is involved, what it means. How strenuously we, as writers and as people who have done it and then talk or write about it, try to capture the movement and intensities we remember. And how ludicrously it so often comes out at that second division, once removed from the flesh and heat.
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