"For desire to exist and possibly flourish, for erotic lives to be cultivated, men must first be born and the dying ones replaced - something entirely unworkable without the power of femininity, of womanhood."--Front cover.
Summary:
"A universe minus women can only mean extinctions of varying and catastrophic degrees. Erotic, perceptive and transcendental; Breasts, etc. is a novel of double consciousness. Portrait photographer and narrator, James Baldwin, oscillates between present day South Africa and the Frontier -- an existential dystopia if and when women are inexplicably completely and permanently wiped from the world.It is an exploration of, and meditation on the existential strife and tragic comedy at the Frontier, a post-apocalyptic and desolate landscape that forms the backdrop to an examination of masculine vulnerabilities and wickedness in a world stripped of feminine presence and wisdom."--Provided by publisher.
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