My Loose Thread

ISBN-13: 9781841954127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str.

Dennis Cooper

Opis

Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to almost all that surrounds him. As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow student and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry delves into the notebook, complications arise. An immensely powerful work that explores teenage depression, moral vacuity, and the confusion of love, this is a claustrophobic and harrowing piece of fiction.

Recenzje

It's almost more like music than reading, a prose that is not in any way poetic, but operates to a unique rhythm. . . Cooper packs more into his pages than almost anyone. Toby Litt Independent on Sunday

O autorze

DENNIS COOPER is the author of All Ears, Criticism, Essays and Obituaries; a short story collection, Wrong; and several volumes of poetry. He's best known, however, for his recently completed cycle of five novels - Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide and Period, all published in the UK by Serpent's Tail.