Frisk - Hardcover

Cooper, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802113990 ISBN 13: 9780802113993

Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991

Synopsis

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

About this title

Review:

Cooper says, "I present the actual act of evil so it's visible and give it a bunch of facets so that you can actually look at it and experience it. You're seduced into dealing with it. ... So with Frisk, whatever pleasure you got out of making a picture in your mind based on ... those people being murdered, you take responsibility for it." In unsparingly confessional mode, Cooper leads the reader into a confrontation with what they get out of fantasized scenes of violence. A brilliant novel -- not a genre horror work but, rather, a critique of the power of genre.

About the Author:

Dennis Cooper is the winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Closer, and Guide was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and one of its Ten Best Books of the Year. He lives in Los Angeles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0802113990
• ISBN 13: 9780802113993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128