The Marbled Swarm is Dennis Cooper's most haunting work to date. In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape--and the most compelling clue to its final nature is "the marbled swarm" itself, a complex amalgam of language passed down fr[...]

A tale largely told through the postings, e-mails, and board conversations on a Web site where gay male escorts are reviewed by dozens of unreliable client narrators traces the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client, an evening that burgeons into a metafiction of pornography, h[...]

Dennis, a young homosexual eager to understand the power that the human body has over him, walks the line between death and desire--experiencing pleasure with punk rocker Samson and hustler Julian--in a world plagued by AIDS[...]

A collection of short stories that use death to probe the meaning of life introduces a man who abducts, molests, and murders young boys; a trip to Amsterdam; and a teenage rock band called Horror Hospital[...]

A father who has just lost his son in a car accident in which he was injured becomes obsessed with discovering the true identity of the dead boy, a moody, mysterious teenager who repeatedly drew the same building in his notebook. Original.[...]

A teenager struggling to come to terms with his sexual identity and his physical feelings toward his younger brother, Larry is offered $500 to kill a fellow student and retrieve the boy's notebook, a personal volume that provides Larry with profound insights into his own life. Reprint.[...]

Dennis Cooper's writing has acquired a ferocious reputation for its bold experimentation, its transgressive content, and its emotional content, which is both Romantic and touching, whilst cold and hard-edged. For over twenty years Cooper has explored the boundaries of human living, and sexuality's c[...]

Kluven (Frisk, 1991) är den andra delen av Dennis Coopers romankvintett som inleddes med Närmare. Läsaren följer de trasiga unga männen över ett fält som exploderar av extremt våld, söndertrasande begär och farlig fantasi. Vad är påhitt och vad är verklighet? Cooper skriver som en gud o[...]