A physically beautiful and strangely passive teenager, george attracts his fellow students with irresistible mystery, like a wallet lying on the street. We gave him a chance on our timeshare sales floor in cancun and he failed miserably not one sale. Released in the uk by chicken house on 3 may 2010, its publication in the us by scholastic inc. In addition to his novels, dennis cooper is the author of the shortstory collection wrong and several volumes of poetry, including the dream police. George gets involved with a middleaged french man named philippe, and through that connection travels down a dark road of dangerous, filthy sex. Closer was dennis cooper s first fulllength novel, having spent twenty years making a name for himself as a gay poet whose principal themes were drugs, sex, death, teenagers and the general meaninglessness and inexplicability of life. Coopers language is at first intense, nearly minimal, then suddenly, it ascends into vision kathy acker dennis cooper was born on january 10, 1953 and grew up in the southern california cities of covina and arcadia. Closer sometimes known simply as tunnels 4 is the fourth book in the tunnels series, written by roderick gordon and brian williams. Your book will arrive via usps in 510 business days. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. If you like transgressive literature thats twisted, disturbing, and depraved, you might like this. Cooper offers up the stripped bones of stories in polished, gleaming prose. Closer weekly has affiliate partnerships so we may receive compensation for some links to products and services. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Closer 1989 physically beautiful and strangely passive, george miles becomes the object of his friends passions, and one after another, they all ransack him for love or anything else they can trust in the mindlessness of middle america. Closer by dennis cooper and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Mar 31, 2017 open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Closer by cooper, dennis, 1953publication date 1989. Closer by dennis cooper overdrive rakuten overdrive. In chapters titled with the names of the characters on whom they focus, this brief novel links together a small, bleakly debauched cast of gay men. The tiny cooper story is a hilarious and campy young adult novel about a boys journey of selfdiscovery as a bigboned gay teen, presented in the format of a broadway musical script with plenty of stage directions that serve as tinys commentary. Lynne tillman an incredibly beautiful and daring book. 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.
Cooper is the author of the novels closer, frisk, try, guide, and period, all published by grove press which together form the. Proclaimed the most dangerous writer in america by the village voice, dennis cooper began his controversial novel cycle with closer, introducing readers to the enigmatic george miles. For 14 years, he ran the popular blog, the weaklings. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading closer. Dennis coopers books, like his young male protagonists, tend to be slender. Ever true to his transgressive muse, cooper opens another shop of horrors suitable to follow his fivenovel cycle period, 2000, etc. Dennis cooper, frequently referred to as the bad boy of gay lit or the voice of the. Pdf playing with culture in dennis coopers closer researchgate. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Nov 08, 20 elliott smith cameos in new dennis cooper poetry book. Its too human and emotional for such a narrow definition. Hes left a trail of unpaid bills and other commitments wherever hes. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
The first edition of the novel was published in november 3rd 1997, and was written by patrick marber. The main characters of this plays, drama story are. Mar 03, 1989 closer is dennis cooper s first novel in a pentology of novels about george miles, who in this novel is the beloved figure for half a dozen high school boys, all gay and all pretty much cool with it. Parents need to know that david levithans hold me closer. If you like transgressive literature thats twisted, disturbing, and depraved, you.
The dennis cooper papers, a threemonth celebration of coopers fivenovel. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 120 pages and is available in paperback format. The book has been awarded with laurence olivier award for best. Montgomery prewiew touch ebook purchase kickass doc download. In 1976, he founded little caesar magazine and press, which he ran until 1982.
Closer the dennis cooper papers profiles the influential literary figure of. Elliott smith cameos in new dennis cooper poetry book spin. Closer george miles cycle, book 1 by dennis cooper book cover, description, publication history. Coopers second book of poetry, tenderness of the wolves, published in 1982, was. When cooper tried to access his gmail account on june 27, 2016, it had been disabled. The sluts 2004, concerning an online community that comments on a website dedicated to gay male escorts, was. Cooper taps the ineffable, the murky underside of sexual and human relations. Julian jaynes, and thomas pynchon collaborating on a book. Dennis cooper born january 10, 1953 is an american novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist. Buy this book in chapters titled with the names of. Dennis cooper books list of books by author dennis cooper.
Dennis cooper manages to infuse hope, love and compassion in with the loss, cruelty and sex. Dennis cooper 1953 american novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright, and editor. There can be no doubt about the power and originality of. Closer cooper, dennis kindle edition by dennis cooper. Playing with culture in dennis coopers closer in assuming that there exists something that can be called mainstream culture, we end up constructing a series of counter cultures or.
Other works by dennis cooper cooper s postgeorge miles cycle novels include my loose thread 2002, a spare, dialoguedriven tale about a teenage boy struggling to understand his physical attraction to his younger brother. Cooper says, i present the actual act of evil so more. Dennis coopers tenth novel bears all of the earmarks of his legendary and controversial. The following entry presents an overview of cooper s career through 2002. All that was left was the recollection of having had a good idea, a recurrent experience of having had a good, an excellent, a most important idea, a truly fundamental idea, but one never remembered itself the idea from one moment to the next, memory was something you simply couldnt depend on, a mans memory set him traps hed walk into and find himself hopelessly lost in, konrad. He is perhaps best known for the george miles cycle, a series of five semiautobiographical novels published between 1989 and 2000 and described by tony oneill as intense a dissection of human relationships and obsession that modern literature has ever attempted. Dennis cooper is the author of the george miles cycle. See all books authored by dennis cooper, including frisk, and try, and more on. Dennis cooper born january 10, 1953 is an american novelist, poet, critic, editor and. The sluts, winner of frances prix sade and the lambda literary award. I think a lot of readers get it wrong when they say that cooper s work is sadohomoerotic. Jul 14, 2016 two weeks ago, writer and artist dennis cooper was checking his gmail when something peculiar happened. Dennis cooper on writing as sculpture the creative independent.
In the world with its own sun in the center of the earth, the. Closer had a couple of adults in it, but it was more about being a teenager. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Jim pickens is a feckless charlatan who sold the rights to the closerswhich he did actually write while he was in prison for fraud dozens of times in various countries. Dennis cooper is the author of the george miles cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title closer. This acclaimed book by dennis cooper is available at in several formats for your ereader. Pdf closer book by patrick marber free download 120 pages.
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