Fiction of Gay Interest

Try
Dennis Cooper
Publisher: Grove Press
New York, NY, USA

Year


 		1994 First Edition       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 21.5 cm * w 15 cm / 199 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: 080211542X

Arbery Ref:   000961

Condition Very Good

Jacket: unclipped; very slight marks and wear consistent with shelf-life; top and bottom of inner flaps slightly discoloured. Boards (green with gilt lettering): very small dent to bottom edge; back of spine has slight irregularity in binding. Pages beginning to age but otherwise clean.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw,Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left him stranded with one and increasingly present in the fantasies of the other." (from the jacket)

Cooper's work can be challenging in its descriptions of sex and violence. Try forms part of his five-volume "George Miles cycle" of novels. (ref: Wikipedia)



Background / Biography:

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




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"Ziggy's splayed in bed editing I Apologize, 'A Magazine for the Sexually Abused'. Four or five copies have sold at this cool, mainly CD-cassette store where Calhoun, his best friend, works part-time. This'll eventually be I Apologize No 20. Last time Ziggy checked it was 1:37 AM. At the moment he's hunched over, filling up most of page eight with a self-portrait. Him scared. Not bad considering the nothing technique. Tick, tick, tick, tick . . . When Ziggy thinks his depiction's okay, ie, now, he moves the pencil to a different locale on the page, gradually clogging this straggly figure's surroundings with words. Don't panic get a grip you don't have to sleep if you don't want to. They're twisting and winding all over the fucking place. Very . . . psychedelic? 'Hm.' Weird how professional it looks. Last weekend, scribbling that sentence on a loose scrap of homework, he'd felt like 'auditioning for a snuff film,' as Uncle Ken joked one time."

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