Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy,
the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers whose
failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left him
stranded with one and increasingly present in the fantasies of the
other." He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells
pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a
junkie whose own vulnerability inspires in Ziggy a fierce and
awkward devotion. Terminally insecure and yet inured to sexual
brutality, Ziggy questions his two fathers, his uncle, his drug
dealer, his friends, and himself in an attempt to isolate and
define the vagaries and boundaries of sexuality, attraction, and
abuse, compiling their responses into a magazine that he calls I
Apologize. In prose that is taut, rhythmic, charged, chillingly
precise, and beautifully controlled, Cooper examines his
characters' motivations not as the product of cultural coercion but
as the emanations of something hungry and amoral and essentially
human. Try explores "that buried need to go all the way and really
possess someone," that place where desire disintegrates into the
irrational. He illuminates with utter clarity the need to claim the
desirable, to possess wholly something that will fulfill the
profound emptiness of the human soul. With Try, Cooper has produced
a novel even more complex than his previous books, dangerously
innovative and with the startling familiarity of truth in its
examination of love, obsession, devotion, and the depths of human
need.
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