This is the OFFICIAL message board for fans of the subversive novelist/poet, Dennis Cooper, best known for "The George Miles Cycle," a series of five ambitious novels. This is also a place for like-minded writers to discuss their reactions to Cooper's work (and maybe even to discuss some of their own).
CLOSER: "Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles becomes the object of his friends' passions. In the blandness of middle America, he represents a pole for authentic experience (copyright - Serpent's Tail Publications)."
FRISK: "Homoeroticism, brutality and psychosis are explored in this unnervingly lucid account of a man whose fascination with snuff photos and murder leads to a killing spree in Holland (copyright - Business Reed Information, Inc.)."
TRY: "Ziggy is the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers, from whose obsessive attentions he flees into the weird world of his uncle, an amoral man who makes violent pornography. As scenes of fierce sex and sadistic oppression take place around him, Ziggy falls improbably in love -- with his best friend, a junkie named Calhoun (copyright - Amazon.com)."
GUIDE: "Cooper once again confronts the existential crisis of gay teen boys with no place to go but down, nothing to look forward to but death. His plots usually revolve around the idea that there are people--usually older men--who are willing to help them with this last desire. In Guide, Dennis has placed himself in the middle of the action as a participant. Beautifully and chillingly written, this novel is Cooper's most disturbing, transgressive tale yet. A visionary masterpiece as sublime as it is frightening (copyright - Amazon.com)."
PERIOD: "Undaunted readers will find a subversive brilliance and considerable wit behind this darkly comic ride through the looking glass of marginal youth culture. Cooper imbues the fifth and final novel in his "George Miles Cycle" with a mythic tone, centering the action in a remote, nondescript town and a mysterious house, all black on the inside except for one large mirror (copyright - Reed Business Information, Inc.)."
NEW! - THE SLUTS: "Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date (copyright - Reed Business Information, Inc.)".
NEW! - GOD JR.: "God Jr. is the story of Jim, a father who survived the car crash that killed his teenage son Tommy. A tender, wrenching look at guilt, grief, and the tenuous bonds of family, God Jr. is unlike anything Dennis Cooper has yet written. It is a triumphant achievement from one of our finest writers (copyright - www. tlavideo.com)
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