Try (Five Star Paperback)

Try (Five Star Paperback)

by Dennis Cooper (Author)

Synopsis

In Try, Dennis Cooper continues his investigation of the frailties and excesses of human existence. Ziggy is the adopted teenage son of two sexually abusive fathers, whose failed experiment at nuclear family living has left him stranded with one and increasingly present in the fantasies of the other. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a drug addict whose own vulnerability inspires in him a fierce and awkward devotion.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 05 Aug 2004

ISBN 10: 1852427744
ISBN 13: 9781852427740

Media Reviews
?He nauseates and enthralls, but is unquestionably a new and major talent? Observer ?Dennis Cooper?s Try is the ripest literary harvest of the season? Cooper is a perky, witty and revolting writer, who provides an important outlet for the often ignored violent anger of Generation X. Here is the son of Rimbaud, de Sade and Genet. Ignore him at your peril? Time Out ?A troubled teenager?s attempt to survive and understand the abuse of his adoptive gay male parents is a powerful, relevant and controversial work? Bent
Author Bio
Dennis Cooper is the winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Closer, and Guide was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and one of its Ten Best Books of the Year. He lives in Los Angeles.