They whisper

Robert Olen Butler

earliest edition we have, 1994 Minerva, 1995 328 pages

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This may be the sexiest book you've ever read. It is also, at turns, among the funniest and the most harrowing and the most moving and the most lyrically beautiful of books. And it is also a book of uncompromising artistic integrity. They Whisper is an astonishingly rare thing in this sex-conscious age: a serious-work of literary art that directly and unflinchingly addresses the subject of modern heterosexuality. Bu...

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Editions we hold

They Whisper edition · 2002 · Penguin Random House · 9780099442585
Etrange murmure paperback · 1999 · Rivages · 416 pages · 9782743604783
They Whisper edition · 1995 · Penguin (Non-Classics) · 333 pages · 9780140243932
They whisper edition · 1995 · Minerva · 328 pages
Étrange murmure edition · 1995 · Rivages · 371 pages · 9782869309548
They whisper edition · 1994 · H. Holt · 333 pages
They Whisper paperback · 1994 · Vintage · 9780749396503
They whisper edition · 1994 · Secker & Warburg · 328 pages

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