My Loose Thread Main Edition Contributor(s): Cooper, Dennis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1841954128 ISBN-13: 9781841954127 Publisher: Canongate Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2003 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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Publisher Description: 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. |