George Miles, a passive young man, attracts the attentions of John, an artist, and other gay men who have completely lost the values of society
De George Miles Cyclus Reeks
Deze serie duikt in de duistere diepten van menselijk verlangen en obsessie, waar de grenzen tussen schoonheid en horror vervagen. Volg personages die verteerd worden door hun passies, op zoek naar spanning op de gevaarlijkste plekken. De verhalen verkennen de donkere kanten van de menselijke natuur en dwingen lezers om taboeonderwerpen onder ogen te zien. Het is een provocerende reis naar het hart van de duisternis die een blijvende indruk achterlaat.
Aanbevolen leesvolgorde
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Frisk
- 128bladzijden
- 5 uur lezen
When Dennis is 13, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. He is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and power; their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. In his work, Dennis Cooper explores the dividing line between the body and the spirit. His first book Frisk is a novel about the power of fantasy and faith, about the ecstasy of being human. It is a work of unflinching honesty that refuses to allow the reader a vicarious, passive role in mapping out the relationship between desire, pornography and violence.
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A look at Ziggy's world, the adopted teen-age son of two gay men. A catalogue of child abuse, rape, sexual promiscuity and drugs. Through it all Ziggy tries to keep his bearings by writing a journal.
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Guide
- 176bladzijden
- 7 uur lezen
Narrated in a voice that may be construed as the author's own, Guide is the story of the conflict between a novelist's fantasy life and his inability to represent it in language. Remembering the clarity he felt during an LSD trip in his teens, 'Dennis' drops acid and attempts to write a novel that will make sense of his life, his desires, his friends, and his art. The fourth volume in Cooper's five-novel cycle, Guide is his most shocking study yet of the darker side of human need and the nature of desire. It reaffirms his position as a writer whose ability to transgress is matched by his literary brilliance.
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The stunning conclusion to Dennis Cooper's five-book cycle, Period earned its author the accolade "a disquieting genius" by Vanity Fair and praise for his "elegant prose and literary lawlessness" by The New York Times. The culmination of Cooper's explorations into sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable object of desire, Period is a breathtaking, mesmerizing final statement to the five-book cycle it completes. Cooper has taken his familiar themes'strangely irresistible and interchangeable young men, passion that crosses into murder, the lure of drugs, the culpabilities of authorship, and the inexact, haunting communication of feeling-and melded them into a novel of flawless form and immense power. Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret Web sites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and outsider art, Period is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical. Obsessive, beautiful, and darkly comic, Period is a stunning achievement from one of America's finest writers
