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My Loose Thread Main Edition
Contributor(s): Cooper, Dennis (Author)
ISBN: 1841954128     ISBN-13: 9781841954127
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Product Type: Paperback
Published: June 2003
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Annotation: Dennis Cooper, god help him, is a born writer" (William S. Burroughs). and this, his latest novel, has emerged as his finest, most thoughtprovoking and challenging piece of writing yet. At the heart of the work is Larry, a teenager who is struggling to understand not only his sexuality and physical feelings towards his younger brother but also the purpose and reason behind his own existence. Larry is offered $500 to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. It all seems straightforward enough. Captivated by both the beauty of its articulation and the horror of its content, he longs for such an ability to communicate himself. Written in sparse yet concentrated language that surrounds, submerges, and potentially overwhelms the reader, My Loose Thread is a claustrophobic, harrowing, and intensely moving piece of fiction.
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.38" W x 7.76" (0.34 lbs) 121 pages
 
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Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to almost all that surrounds him.
As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry delves into the notebook, complications arise.
An immensely powerful work that explores teenage depression, moral vacuity and the confusion of love, My Loose Thread is a claustrophobic and harrowing piece of fiction.