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Author: Dennis CooperFormat: Softcover
Publisher: Grove PrISBN-10: 0802135803
ISBN-13: 9780802135803Category: Science Fiction
Publication Year: 1998Sub-Category: --
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A young porn star longs for death; a teenage runaway needs love; a pair of friends are attached to their bizarre fantasies. This novel about characters in search of experience is by a young writer who has been compared to Baudelaire and Genet.

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Length:192 pages
Height:8.3 in.
Width:5.8 in.
Thickness:0.2 in.
Weight:8.0 oz.

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Narrated in a voice that at times 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 and omnipotence 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, and distinguish what is real from the distortions created by his overactive imagination. Dennis's sexual relationship with Chris - an addict who fantasizes about being killed - pushes him to the very edge of emotions he has only imagined. His platonic love for Luke, an imaginative, but far more innocent, friend, offers possible salvation from his otherwise crazy life. In episodic chapters that criss-cross through time, Guide weaves together Dennis's story with these and other characters, including Goof, a young and amazingly innocent porn star, Sniffles, a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life, and Mason, whose lurid desires are rivaled only by Dennis's own.

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"Of all of Cooper's work, this novel is the most irritating and stimulating: It is a beauty. His stunning prose borrows stylistics from the most vacuous genres available (self-help manuals, New Age tomes, substance-abuse rehabilitation pamphlets, porn). At times I shook my head in disbelief because of the risks he was taking to get everything in and hold it together."
Nation - Bruce Hainley (06/16/1997)

"[I]t's the most seductively frightening, best-written novel of contemporary urban life that anyone has attempted in a long time; it's the funniest, too, and does for Clinton America what 'The Tin Drum' did for postwar Germany."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Gary Indiana (06/08/1997)

"Dennis Cooper tears into his latest novel with the assurance of a rock star strumming a power chord. In 'Guide,' we are allowed to spy on the terrifying exploits of a group of aggressively apathetic underworld characters....But just when we're beginning to wonder if we're too dorky--or just not interested enough--to be smashing around in the pit with these guys..., Cooper calls our attention to the novel's narrator, a writer named Dennis who may or may not be Cooper's alter ego....Dennis unzips Cooper's self-consciousness, successfully drenching the book in life-saving irony ."
New York Times Book Review - Aoibheann Sweeney (08/03/1997)


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Guide (Cooper, Dennis)

Dennis Cooper

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Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Good
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ISBN: 0802135803
Publication Date: 1998-08-06
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages: 192
Height: 1.0000 inches
Width: 5.5000 inches
Weight: 0.3500 pounds

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