Closer
$25.11
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
28 November 2023
Summary
With an introduction by Lynne Tillman
Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students with a mysterious promise, like a wallet lying on the street. Closer follows the links of desire that drag George into the arms of boys like John, an artist who deliberately drains his portraits of humanity; Alex, fascinated by splatter films and pornography; and Steve, an underground entrepreneur who turns his parents’ garage into a nightclub. Two men i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800812895 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1800812892 |
| Author: | Dennis Cooper |
| Publisher: | Profile Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Serpent's Tail |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 28 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 128mm x 196mm |
| Series: | Serpent's Tail Classics |
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Critics Review
‘Extraordinary… . One of the few new American writers with a completely distinctive voice’ - Edmund White
‘A story about how desire can persist to the brink of self-destruction and beyond… . A work of considerable courage’ - Thomas R. Edwards
‘Closer translates the moments and feelings for which we don’t really have a vocabulary. Cooper taps the ineffable, the murky underside of sexual and human relations’ - Lynne Tillman
‘An incredibly beautiful and daring book’ - Kathy Acker
Dennis Cooper
Dennis Cooper is a novelist, poet, critic, and performance artist. His work has inspired numerous bands, including Deerhunter, and has been translated into seventeen languages. Cooper has been the subject of the biography Wrong by Diarmuid Hester and now lives in Paris.
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