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Title: Frisk by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 0802132898 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27
Rating: 5
Summary: Not for the faint of heart.
Comment: This is Dennis cooper's breakthrough novel, which got him both praise and death threats. The narrator, "Dennis", is obsessed with the connection between sex and death, desire and annihilation. As you read his story, he implicates you in indulging him his fantasy, but he also loves you for listening to him. Don't put it down when it starts to repulse you, because so much is waiting for you at the end.
Rating: 4
Summary: Chewy
Comment: Clinging to his memories of fake snuff photographs, the mysterious narrator named Dennis explores the dangers and taboos of sexuality. Finally, in Holland, he finds himself free of restrictions and is able to act upon his dark fantasies. A fascinating tale of fetishes and deep desires that disturbs as it compells the reader onward. While not as lush as Poppy Brite's "Exquisite Corpse" or as satirical as Ellis's "American Psycho", "Frisk" charts its own course along similar territory, coming up with a new revelation. And I have to agree that Cooper's writing style can easily put off readers, and I found "Frisk" to be the most readable of his books I've read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Cooper's catacombs...
Comment: Dennis Cooper keeps taking us further and further into his dark places. FRISK is his deepest exploration yet into the shadow world of lust and death. It is a collection of images loosely tied to a story line. Cooper salivates over James Duvall's beautiful stomach, and then casually recounts an anonymous sex scene between the narrator ("Dennis" who closely resmbles the author) and a young man who may or may not be Leonardo DiCapprio. The most indellible image, however, is a grisly scene in which a dwarf with an attitude enthusiastically and obligingly hacks a gay junkie with a death wish into easily disposable parts.
FRISK appears to be a strange concoction of desire and nightmare, with, just maybe, a sprinkling of biography. It is definitely not a book for everyone.
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Title: Closer by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 080213212X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Guide by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 0802135803 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: TRY by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 080213338X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 1841952745 Publisher: Canongate Pub Ltd Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Period by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 0802137830 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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