With an introduction by Lynne Tillman 'The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction' Bret Easton Ellis Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students' attention, like a wallet lying on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle through George, ransacking him for love, secrets or anything else they can plausibly extract. Closer follows the subterranean connections that drag George into the arms of men like John, an artist who drains his portraits of humanity in ...
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With an introduction by Lynne Tillman 'The last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction' Bret Easton Ellis Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students' attention, like a wallet lying on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle through George, ransacking him for love, secrets or anything else they can plausibly extract. Closer follows the subterranean connections that drag George into the arms of men like John, an artist who drains his portraits of humanity in order to find what lies beneath; Alex, fascinated by splatter films and pornography; and Steve, an underground entrepreneur who turns his parents' garage into a nightclub. Boys and men pass George from hand to hand, fascinated by the nightmarish intensity of his detachment, but soon he will be confronted by desires he may find harder to endure. Closer is an unflinching exploration of the very limits of experience. Still shocking after more than two decades, here is a provocative classic that assaults the senses as it engages the mind.
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Dennis Cooper, in this, as in his other books, has found a way to make trash out of art and art out of trash. This is certain to rate high with lovers of the avant-garde who mistake punk for insight. If you are one of the literati who recommend this book highly, I promise you it is going to seem merely nasty in thirty years. Maybe less! If you are a reader who threw this book across the room and then threw it away, I want to know you--you're a friend. We do not have to be shocked and manipulated in order to learn the central verities and values of life. But maybe we need an enfant terrible like Dennis Cooper now and then so that we can appreciate good, insightful writing from authors other than him. Sometimes being a loser is a noble thing. Dennis Cooper proves that being a loser can be nothing more or less than being a loser.
