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Title: My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 1841952745 Publisher: Canongate Pub Ltd Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3
Rating: 4
Summary: Teenage Wasteland
Comment: If you've made it here, you know what the book is about. It's not as shocking as it is horrifying. Cooper has touched a raw nerve here, the elephant in the living room, the huge problem endemic to our society: kids that grow up with little or no love and less imagination. There's no emotion or feeling in anything these kids do. Drugs and disaster provide the only forward motion in these kids' lives. And don't say that it's an unreal portrait. It is too real.
This novel is very of-the-moment. It's unlike anything I've read recently. No postmodern,...admiring flim flam. Just a story about youth that ought to scare the bejeezus out of middle America.
Rating: 4
Summary: About being unique
Comment: Dennis Cooper is a writer who is creating his own niche in literature. He is eloquent while being brutal, comprehendable while writing about insanity, tender while describing the most perilous of situations, and a master at living inside the heads of troubled youths. MY LOOSE THREAD is more like an epic poem in dialogue than it is a novel. There is story here - grand Guignol story - but the madness of the narrative comes solely through the voices of the participants in this far from normal setting. And like an epic poem, this story begs to be read in one sitting. The dialogue is intense but the depth of meaning behind even short phrases requires deep concentration on the part of the reader.
Some people may be put off by the style or the subject of this book - Cooper climbs inside the psyches of young gay boys and tries to sort out the confusion and challenges of the real versus the fantasy. But get past whatever might disturb you about the story and you will be witness to a major talent. It will be invigorating to read a long novel by this gifted writer.
Rating: 5
Summary: great great book
Comment: This is the first Dennis Cooper novel I've read so I cannot compare it to what he has written before. But I think it's the most honest and emotionally intense fiction I've ever read. I've read it four times and it made cry every time. It makes me feel speechless. It's brilliant.
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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: Period by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 0802137830 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 30 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Frisk by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 0802132898 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Sarah by J. T. LeRoy ISBN: 158234146X Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by J. T. Leroy ISBN: 1582342113 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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