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Title: My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 1-84195-412-8 Publisher: Canongate Books Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.31 (13 reviews)
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: 5
Summary: "Shocking".............High Risk Literature
Comment: One thing you can say about Dennis Cooper's writing is he intends to shock and alarm us with his subject matter, and he certainly is successful in that respect. You might even call it "high risk literature". He is a born writer who writes with short, tight, tense sentences that keeps the reader glued to the story from the beginning to the end. You can feel the emotions and feelings of each of his characters. That's why I have read all of his novels. The subject matter may not be appealing but Cooper is a daring, literary master with words. Cooper's writing has often been compared to another literary artist, William Burroughs.
Cooper's latest novel is about a high school student named Larry who is offered $500, by an older student, to kill a fellow student at his school and retrieve the guy's notebook. It seems like a easy enough task for Larry to do, but many unexpected complications arise. After the student is killed, Larry decides to read the notebook out of curiosity. What it reveals is totally unexpected and shocking for Larry. Larry's life is changed from this point on in the story. Larry at the same time, is also wrestling with his own sexuality and a sexual relationship with his younger brother. These young characters seem to be in a permanent state of emotional upheaval. There seems to be so much violence, stress and sexual abuse in their lives. Everyday is a matter of life and death for these kids. This story is not one that will uplift your spirits, and it's not for the easily shocked.
Shocking? Yes. Sexually tense and violent? Yes. It almost seems like a "teenage hell". As I said, "The subject matter may not be appealing but Cooper is a daring, literary master with words. Be prepared!!!! Cooper's done it again. Recommended.
Joe Hanssen
Rating: 5
Summary: Bring it on
Comment: Dennis Cooper was born on January 10, 1953 in Pasadena, California. He grew up in Los Angeles. He was the director at Beyond Baroque. He lived in New York and Amsterdam for a few years. In 1984, Cooper moved to New York City. In 1987 he met his Dutch boyfriend who he soon followed back to Amsterdam. While in Amsterdam he finished writing his first novel, Closer, which was inspired by a postcard that featured an image of Mickey Mouse carved onto the back of a young boy. Around the time he wrote his second novel, Dennis began writing journalism for a number of newspapers and magazines.
Dennis then returned to Los Angeles around ten years ago. He is now known for his cycle of five novels that started with Closer, and continued with Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. All the books were stylistically different and but had young people as their subject matter. He has published a number of books of poetry, most was later collected in The Dream Police. Dennis also published a book or short stories, Wrong, and a book of critical writings called All Ears.
In March 2000, Dennis' work was celebrated at NYU Fales Library with a panel of noted critics of contemporary culture including Professor Avital Ronell, Stephen Malkmus from the band "Pavement," Thurston Moore, guitarist with "Sonic Youth," and authors Bret Easton Ellis and Lynne Tillman, among others. The year 2000 was a threshold year since he was done with the cycle. Dennis was collaborating on other projects for a few years. Now he's finally published a new book, My Loose Thread. It is a very short book. It focuses on the thoughts of Larry, a teenager, and his friends. Larry has been paid to kill a fellow student and retrieve his notebook. There's also the strange relationship he has with his younger brother, Jim. My Loose Thread is a mystery and a challenge to read, especially in this age of teenage aggression and sexuality.
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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: TRY by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 080213338X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1995 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: Frisk by Dennis Cooper ISBN: 0802132898 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J. T. Leroy ISBN: 1582342113 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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