Closer
Published on 15. March 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-85242-371-1 (ISBN)
Description
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. Cooper?s use of the horrific is very pertinent - it forces us to contemplate the emptiness of lives and the everyday pervasiveness of violence. Passionate and terrifying, Closer confirms Dennis Cooper?s position as one of the most daring, innovative writers of today.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. Cooper?s use of the horrific is very pertinent - it forces us to contemplate the emptiness of lives and the everyday pervasiveness of violence. Passionate and terrifying, Closer confirms Dennis Cooper?s position as one of the most daring, innovative writers of today.
Reviews / Votes
?His work belongs with that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire and Georges Bataille...? San Francisco Chronicle ?There can be no doubt about the power and originality of his writing. Sheer force of style raises Closer to the level of a classic? Washington DC Post ?He is the most exciting, innovative gay writer in the USA. Never was spiritual decay more lovingly dissected? ObserverMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 129 mm
Width: 198 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85242-371-1 (9781852423711)
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Person
Dennis Cooper is the winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Closer, and Guide was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and one of its Ten Best Books of the Year. He lives in Los Angeles.