Verbal Intercourse: A Darkly Humorous Novel of Interpersonal Couples and Family Communication,
by Anne Hart, is a paperback psychological adventure/suspense novel, published by iUniverse, Inc., March 2002, 274 pages, ISBN: 0-595-21946-2. We look for patterns in voice, body
language, and gesture to find the real intentions of people. We observe patterns in nature. What does family communication say about ourselves, and how do we bring it to work?
Dark humor is found in every kind of family if we look close enough at the family’s verbal intercourse. When men and women communicate with each other, it’s through the convergence of lifestyle and work style, of habit and patterns, of performance and ritual. It’s a rite of passage to write about verbal intercourse. It’s a biological, personality-oriented way of communicating that reveals our physiological responses.
We roll our eyes in contempt, make gestures, use body language to intimidate or make someone feel important and good about himself. In short, the way husbands and wives communicate between themselves that shortens or lengthens their healthy days. It’s the way the children observe their words and gestures. It’s about the effect verbal intercourse has on the person communicated to through words, looks, and body language.
For the wife who says her husband doesn’t listen or doesn’t talk, for the husband who says his wife talks about the same thing over and over, and for the children who bank their patterns of verbal intercourse to spend on the next generation or to avoid, verbal intercourse is a convergence of lifestyles, body language, and words.
No matter how dark the satire or comedy, verbal intercourse is hilarious because to take life serious starts by laughing at the patterns in nature that seem to spiral into wedding rings and recurring seasons or patterns. We arrive full circle.
By laughing at ourselves, can we see patterns in nature and in ourselves. This book is about body language as well as verbal speech and
writing. It''s a novel about how we communicate with those who share our environment.
Verbal Intercourse refers to the strategies and methods we use to organize and share communication with those we meet and those who enter our lives—family, strangers, co-workers, authority figures, and our changing selves. Browse this book at the publisher’s Web site at: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-21946-2.