title: Exquisite Corpse: A Novel
author:  Poppy Z. Brite 
description: You've probably heard that this love story about two cannibalistic serial killers (loosely modeled after Dennis Nilsen and Jeffrey Dahmer) is over the top. You've been warned about the lovingly meticulous descriptions of murder and necrophilia. But the novel also features a keen look at the AIDS plague, in a setting almost worth dying for: Brite's doomed aesthetes dance in a sweet, heady New Orleans of milky coffee and beignets, alligators, Billy Holiday tunes, scented candles, pirate radio, swamp French, andouille sausage and one bar for every 175 people. And the structure is the tightest of Brite's books so far.
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  # ACCEPTANCE
  
  
  ## JEFF VANDERMEER
  
  
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  ### [Copyright](contents.html#copy)
  
  
  Fourth Estate
  
  
  An imprint of HarperCollins _Publishers Ltd_
  
  
  77–85 Fulham Palace Road,
  
  
  Hammersmith, London W6 8JB
  
  
  [www.4thestate.co.uk](http://www.4thestate.co.uk)
  
  
  First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014
  
  
  First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014
  
  
  Copyright © VanderMeer Creative, Inc. 2014
  
  
  Cover design by Kai and Sunny
  
  
  Jeff VanderMeer asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this
  work.
  
  
  A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
  
  
  This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents
  either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  All rights reserved under International a