Hustler apocalypse.The Sluts * Dennis Cooper Dennis Cooper (born 1953) is a poet, writer, and performance artist, most noted for transforming the visual/verbal aesthetic of punk into its written counterpart. Career Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Pasadena, California. * Carroll & Graf * $14.95 Skinny young hustlers, sleazy gay men seeking teen lovers, heavy S/M S-M or S/M abbr. sadomasochism S/M n abbr (= sadomasochism) → S/M sex, murder, dismemberment--must be a Dennis Cooper novel. But The Sluts has a compelling new twist: It's told via online postings, e-mails, telephone calls, and faxes, all from a series of teasingly dubious narrators. The first quarter is a kinetic series of "reviews" of 18-year-old escort Brad, whose life and lies are the novel's chief concern. The going gets gory go·ry adj. go·ri·er, go·ri·est 1. Covered or stained with gore; bloody. 2. Full of or characterized by bloodshed and violence. , but the alluring unreliability of the Internet turns horror into mystery: What's true? Who's real? And does it matter as long as everyone's getting off? On top of that, add a layer of autobiography, since The Sluts was written while Cooper was questioning the very existence of his onetime teen protege, notoriously reclusive re·clu·sive adj. 1. Seeking or preferring seclusion or isolation. 2. Providing seclusion: a reclusive hut. writer and exhustler JT LeRoy, whom Cooper got to know via faxes, phone calls, and e-mail. One takeaway message: Lies are often much sexier than the truth. |
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