Ugly Man: Stories (P.S.) - Softcover

Cooper, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061715441 ISBN 13: 9780061715440

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2009

Synopsis

"[A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction." --Bret Easton Ellis

Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now--in stories--with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the human soul.

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Review:

"Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer" -- William Burroughs

"A disquieting genius." -- Vanity Fair

"Potent and humorous..As always, the need for connection-even if experienced at the level of unspeakable yet intimate violence-as well as the need to expose what lies underneath are Cooper's main preoccupations." -- New York Times Book Review

A disquieting genius. --Vanity Fair

"A disquieting genius."--Vanity Fair

"Potent and humorous....As always, the need for connection--even if experienced at the level of unspeakable yet intimate violence--as well as the need to expose what lies underneath are Cooper's main preoccupations."--New York Times Book Review

"Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer"--William Burroughs

Potent and humorous .As always, the need for connection even if experienced at the level of unspeakable yet intimate violence as well as the need to expose what lies underneath are Cooper s main preoccupations. --New York Times Book Review"

But even in these moments of intense melancholy, "Ugly Man" has a lightness that Cooper hasn t achieved elsewhere. Though the collection deals with topics that are shocking, even abhorrent, it is certainly this highly talented author s most accessible work to date--Time Out New York"

A disquieting genius. --Vanity Fair"

About the Author:

Dennis Cooper is the author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels: Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. His other works include My Loose Thread; The Sluts, winner of France's Prix Sade and the Lambda Literary Award; God, Jr.; Wrong; The Dream Police; and Ugly Man. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061715441
• ISBN 13: 9780061715440
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272