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 without excitement and experience without emotion are prized. von Cooper,...

Narrated in a voice that at times may be construed as the author's own, Guide is the story of the conflict between a novelist's fantasy life and his inability to represent it in language. Remembering the clarity and omnipotence he felt...

Dennis Cooper has been praised as a writer of "disquieting genius" by "Vanity Fair, and his sparely crafted novels have earned him an international reputation--even as his subject matter has made him a controversial figure. "God Jr, is a...

"Punkt" von Dennis Cooper ist ein intensiver und provokanter Roman, der tief in die düsteren Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche eintaucht. Der Autor, bekannt für seine schonungslose Erzählweise, schildert das Leben und die inneren Kämpfe...

Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted son of two sexually abusive fathers. He runs from both of these men to his uncle, who sells porographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires...

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...

Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret Web sites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and outsider art, "Period" is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical. The culmination of Cooper's explorations into...

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In Frisk, Dennis Cooper explores the ultimate meaning of the body, sex, and death. The novel's narrator, a thirteen-year-old boy, is stunned when he encounters photos of a mutilated boy; his imagination leads him on a journey in which...