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Closer - A Novel (Paperback, 1st Evergreen ed)
Series: Cooper, Dennis
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Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts
his fellow students with a mysterious promise, like a wallet lying
on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle through
George, ransacking him for love or anything else they could trust
in the mindlessness of middle America. What they find is a vision
of nightmare intensity, in a novel that assaults the senses as it
engages the mind. Closer follows the links of desire and value that
drag George into the arms of men like John, an artist who drains
his portraits of humanity in order to find what lies beneath; Alex,
fascinated by splatter films and pornography; and Steve, an
underground entrepreneur who turns his parents' garage into a
nightclub. These and others pass George from hand to hand, hoping
to feel even one emotion clear and uncorrupted by society, but
George remains a blurry ghost until he is picked up by two men in
their forties. Tom and Philippe think they can find reality in the
sharp outlines of bones and the bright red of blood; obsessed with
the beauty of death, they find in George the perfect object for
their passion. In brutally frank prose that exposes euphemism,
cliche, and evasion, Dennis Cooper stares unflinchingly at the
horror of a society without values, and his vision makes its
enormity all too real. It is a world in which pain is an undeniable
reality, the inevitable companion of truth, and a test of our
commitment to life. Dennis Cooper explores the limits of
experience, and while he sharpens our understanding of the life
around us, he leaves no escape from what he finds.
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Imprint: |
Avalon Travel Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Cooper, Dennis |
Release date: |
February 2023 |
First published: |
1994 |
Authors: |
Dennis Cooper
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Dimensions: |
209 x 139 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
144 |
Edition: |
1st Evergreen ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-3212-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-8021-3212-X |
Barcode: |
9780802132123 |
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