Closer

The brutally frank and daring gay classic from countercultural icon Dennis Cooper

With an introduction by Lynne Tillman'The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction' Bret Easton EllisPhysically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students' attention, like a wallet lying on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle through George, ransacking him for love, secrets or anything else they can plausibly extract.Closer follows the subterranean connections that drag George into the arms of men like John, an artist who drains his portraits of humanity in order to find what lies beneath; Alex, fascinated by splatter films and pornography; and Steve, an underground entrepreneur who turns his parents' garage into a nightclub. Boys and men pass George from hand to hand, fascinated by the nightmarish intensity of his detachment, but soon he will be confronted by desires he may find harder to endure. Closer is an unflinching exploration of the very limits of experience. Still shocking after more than two decades, here is a provocative classic that assaults the senses as it engages the mind.

'A story about how desire can persist to the brink of self-destruction and beyond. . . . A work of considerable courage' - The New York Review of Books

'Without a doubt one of the most vital and important writers to emerge in the past fifty years, and his genius goes far beyond mere taboo-breaking . . . Cooper's books are dissection tables of desire; they take a bone saw to the dreams, sexual fantasies, obsessions, youthful delusions, and myths of fame and individuality that have come to define our private and public selves' Interview' - Interview

'His work belongs with the likes of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality.' - San Francisco Chronicle

'Cooper is a profoundly original American visionary, and the most important transgressive literary artist since Burroughs . . . An American master' - Salon

'A queer cult writer ... Cooper is unflinching in his exploration of the seedy depths of underground American queer life' - Attitude

SPECIFICATIONS:

Author:Dennis Cooper - Деннис Купер

Publisher:Profile Books

Language:English

Publication Date:2023

Number of pages:160 pst

Format:Paperback

Width:128 mm / 5'

Height:196 mm / 7,7'

Weight:140 g

ISBN:9781800812895