Synopses & Reviews
A short story from the collection Ugly Man by Dennis Cooper.
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“But even in these moments of intense melancholy, Ugly Man has a lightness that Cooper hasnt achieved elsewhere. Though the collection deals with topics that are shocking, even abhorrent, it is certainly this highly talented authors most accessible work to date Time Out New York
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“A disquieting genius.” Vanity Fair
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“Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer” William Burroughs
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“Potent and humorous….As always, the need for connectioneven if experienced at the level of unspeakable yet intimate violenceas well as the need to expose what lies underneath are Coopers main preoccupations.” New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
" A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction." --Bret Easton Ellis
Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now--in stories--with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the human soul.
--Time Out New York
About the Author
Dennis Cooper is the author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels: Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. His other works include My Loose Thread; The Sluts, winner of France's Prix Sade and the Lambda Literary Award; God, Jr.; Wrong; The Dream Police; and Ugly Man. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Paris.