Ugly Man

Stories

By Dennis Cooper
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780061715440, 272pp.)

Publication Date: June 2009

Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook

Categories: Short Stories (single author)

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Dennis Cooper is the author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels: Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period. His other works include My Loose Thread; The Sluts, winner of France's Prix Sade and the Lambda Literary Award; God, Jr.; Wrong; The Dream Police; and Ugly Man. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Paris.

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“But even in these moments of intense melancholy, Ugly Man has a lightness that Cooper hasn’t achieved elsewhere. Though the collection deals with topics that are shocking, even abhorrent, it is certainly this highly talented author’s most accessible work to date
-Time Out New York

“Potent and humorous….As always, the need for connection—even if experienced at the level of unspeakable yet intimate violence—as well as the need to expose what lies underneath are Cooper’s main preoccupations.”
-New York Times Book Review

“Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer”
-William Burroughs

“A disquieting genius.”
-Vanity Fair