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Obsessive, beautiful, and darkly comic, PERIOD is a crowning achievement from one of America's finest writers.
Eerie and stunning, PERIOD earned its author the accolades '[a] disquieting genius' by VANITY FAIR and praise for his 'elegant prose and literary lawlessness' by THE NEW YORK TIMES.
The culmination of Cooper's explorations into sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable object of desire, PERIOD is a mesmerizing final statement to the five-book cycle it completes.
Cooper has taken his familiar themes--strangely irresistible and interchangeable young men, passion that crosses into murder, the lure of drugs, the culpabilities of authorship, and the inexact, haunting communication of feeling--and melded them into a novel of flawless form and immense power.
Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret websites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and outsider art, PERIOD is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical.
Eerie and stunning, PERIOD earned its author the accolades '[a] disquieting genius' by VANITY FAIR and praise for his 'elegant prose and literary lawlessness' by THE NEW YORK TIMES.
The culmination of Cooper's explorations into sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable object of desire, PERIOD is a mesmerizing final statement to the five-book cycle it completes.
Cooper has taken his familiar themes--strangely irresistible and interchangeable young men, passion that crosses into murder, the lure of drugs, the culpabilities of authorship, and the inexact, haunting communication of feeling--and melded them into a novel of flawless form and immense power.
Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret websites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and outsider art, PERIOD is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical.
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Author: Dennis Cooper
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages: 128pp
Size: 5.5 x 8.25
Notes: paperback
Release Date: March 2001
ISBN: 978-0802137838