I think a lot of readers get it wrong when they say that cooper s work is sadohomoerotic. Guide, the fourth novel in a projected five book cycle, continues to explore the boundaries of experience in the manner that has earned dennis cooper comparisons to poe, genet, and baudelaire. Dennis cooper s previous four novels closer, frisk, try, and guidehave established him as a completely unique, fearlessly radical voice in contemporary american fiction. Dennis cooper books list of books by author dennis cooper. The sluts, winner of frances prix sade and the lambda literary award. Lynne tillman an incredibly beautiful and daring book. Frisk is a novel about the power of fantasy and faith, about the ecstasy and horror of being human. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The first novel in the notorious, awardwinning george miles cyclea crowning achievement in american letters from a master of transgressive fiction tony oneill, the guardian, uk.
Online shopping from a great selection at books store. In 1985, he moved to amsterdam for two and a half years, where he began his ten year long project, the george miles cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels that includes closer, frisk, try, guide, and period. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Closer is dennis cooper s first novel in a pentology of novels about george miles, who in this novel is the beloved figure for half a dozen high school boys, all gay and all pretty much cool with it. How nightmarish childhood events became a 5book series. Closer was dennis cooper s first fulllength novel, having spent twenty years making a name for himself as a gay poet whose principal themes were drugs, sex, death, teenagers and the general meaninglessness and inexplicability of life. The world as dennis cooper sees it is not for the faint of heart. Cooper s fiction, which includes the novels closer, frisk, and the marbled swarm, is more accessible than ackers and more tender and complex than elliss, and it can be just as disturbing. Cooper says, i present the actual act of evil so more. Its too human and emotional for such a narrow definition. There is barely an ember of warmth in dennis cooper s work of transgressive fiction closer. Proclaimed the most dangerous writer in america by the village voice, dennis cooper began his controversial novel cycle with closer, introducing readers to the enigmatic george miles. Dennis cooper s spare and elegant prose documents the lives of young people in our society who are constantly being exploited.
Like jean genet and william burroughs, dennis cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind with visions of nightmare intensity in a world where stimulation. He is perhaps best known for the george miles cycle, a series of five semiautobiographical novels published between 1989 and 2000 and described by tony oneill as intense a dissection of human relationships and obsession that modern literature has ever attempted. See all books authored by dennis cooper, including frisk, and try, and more on. The best piracy website to download books acetil colina 041120sat16. Closer, the first in a five book series of short novels about young gay men, is hypnotic and disturbing. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Dennis cooper manages to infuse hope, love and compassion in with the loss, cruelty and sex. The stunning conclusion to dennis cooper s five book cycle, period earned its author the accolade a disquieting genius by vanity fair and praise for his elegant prose and literary lawlessness by the new york times. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The most seductively frightening, best written novel of contemporary. Dennis cooper is the author of the george miles cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels. Cooper taps the ineffable, the murky underside of sexual and human relations. Dennis cooper is a master of transgressive literature featuring all manner of minutelyobserved depravity. Dennis cooper author of frisk goodreads share book.
What kind of filmmaker will novelist dennis cooper be. Discover book depositorys huge selection of dennis cooper books online. Dennis cooper born january 10, 1953 is an american novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist. Closer by dennis cooper, 1989, grove press edition, in english 1st ed. George gets involved with a middleaged french man named philippe, and through that connection travels down a dark road of dangerous, filthy sex. An isolated windmill in holland provides the perfect setting for dennis to find out more about pdf bodiesof which there are manyand what is inside them. Closer 1989 physically beautiful and strangely passive, george miles becomes the object of his friends passions, and one after another, they all ransack him for love or anything else they can trust in the mindlessness of middle america.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading closer. Charting a path of exploration across the rich themes of sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable, perfect object of desire, cooper s novels are mesmerizing works of extreme. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or. In frisk, as in the awardwinning closer, dennis cooper explores the limits of our knowledge and the dividing line between the body and the spirit. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Bret easton ellis internationally acclaimed writer dennis cooper continues to study the material hes always explored honestly, but does so nowin storieswith a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. The culmination of cooper s explorations into sex and death, youth culture. A good writer as bad as youll find books the guardian.
He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream american fiction. Dennis cooper has 90 books on goodreads with 41073 ratings. Dennis cooper, closer, grove press, new york, 1989, pgs. Tommy was distant, transfixed by video games and pop culture, and a. If you like transgressive literature thats twisted, disturbing, and depraved, you. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Buy closer by dennis cooper from waterstones today.
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