Fiction of Gay Interest

Guide
Dennis Cooper
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
London, UK

Year


1998 First UK Edition; signed by author       
first publ USA 1997
Cover / size: Paperback / h 19.8 cm * w 12.8 cm / 176 pp

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: 1852425865

Arbery Ref:   000975

Condition Very Good

Cover: very slight wear, consistent with shelf-life. Page edges mottling and small stain. Author's signature on title page. Pages beginning to discolour with age but otherwise clean.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"Narrated in a voice that may be construed as the author's own, Guide is the story of the conflict between a novelist's fantasy life and his inability to represent it in language. Remembering the clarity he felt during an LSD trip in his teens, 'Dennis' drops acid and attempts to write a novel that will make sense of his life,his desires, his friends and his art."

The fourth volume in Cooper's five-novel cycle, Guide is his most shocking study yet of the darker side of human need and the nature of desire. It reaffirms his position as a writer whose ability to transgreess is matched by his literary brilliance."

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Background / Biography:

Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist. continued on Wikipedia)




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