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Indlæser... Guide (udgave 1997)af Dennis Cooper (Forfatter)
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Chris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else's hand; Mason has lurid fantasies about members of British pop bands; Sniffles is a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life. Courtesy of a frankly manipulative author/narrator named Dennis, these characters and more move through a subterranean Los Angeles where hallucination and reality, sex and suicide, love and indifference run together in terrifying ways. Guide, the fourth novel in a projected five-book cycle, continues to explore the boundaries of experience in the manner that has earned Dennis Cooper comparisons to Poe, Genet, and Baudelaire. No library descriptions found. |
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At one point in the book, Sniffles, one of Dennis's objects of affection or desire, tells his roommates he is moving in with Dennis. The roommate replies, speaking of Dennis' novels "Have your read them? They're all about serial murderers. And all the victims are boys. And all the boys look like you."
The George Miles books are all about fantasy, but somewhere in a mind or on a page, these ghost boys are quite real, and the hauntingly floated prose here reveals their bruises in garish, or even loving, detail. Underneath the collapsing veins of junkies and through the caverns of gaped assholes, there is a tenderness here. It is a deep and important tenderness, but what the reader has to encounter or empathize with to access that tenderness says something about sickness or obsession on the part of the reader, not only the writer. ( )