Noch einmal kehrt Cooper zur Figur seiner ersten fünf Romane, die ihn in den 1990er Jahren berühmt gemacht haben, zurück: George Miles, er ist Coopers lebensbestimmende Liebe. Cooper erzählt von Georges traumatischer Kindheit: Doch schon bald wechselt er zu Dennis und wie dem Zehnjährigen das Wünschen das Leben gerettet hat. Er schreibt von dem folgenschweren Aufeinandertreffen zwischen George und Dennis ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Die Schlampen

Dt. v. Raimund Varga. Ö 2020, 240 S., geb., € 24.70
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Luftschacht

»Die Schlampen« spielt in der Welt der schwulen Dating-Plattformen. Zentrale Figur ist ein Escort namens Brad. Die Geschichte entwickelt sich auf einer Website, auf der Escorts von ihren Kunden bewertet werden können. Erzählt wird nur durch die Postings, E-Mails und Gespräche derjenigen, die hier Beiträge schreiben. Rasch wird klar, dass sich deren Behauptungen widersprechen, Meinungen prallen aufeinander, und bald weiß ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Mein loser Faden

Dt. v. Raimund Varga. Ö 2018, 160 S., geb., € 18.50
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Luftschacht

Wie ein roter Faden ziehen sich Abgründe modernen jugendlichen Daseins in den USA durch das umfangreiche Werk von Dennis Cooper. Immer kommen junge Burschen zu Schaden - durch Zufall oder absichtlich. Oft ist nicht ganz klar, ob der Autor auf surrealistische Traum- (und Lustmord-)Fantasien abzielt oder er reale Tötungen beschreibt. Seine Art zu schreiben geht dem Leser an die Nieren. ... Weiterlesen
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Dennis Cooper: Mein loser Faden

Dt. v. Raimund Varga. Ö 2018, 160 S., geb., € 18.00
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Luftschacht

Gilman ist der Anführer einer rechtsextremen Gruppe, die Todeslisten ihrer Mitschüler führt. Als Pete von Gilman den Auftrag bekommt, für 500 Dollar Bill zu töten, weil er dessen Notizbuch haben will, sucht Pete bei Larry Hilfe. Larry wirkt gefühlskalt und ist gewaltbereit, er erledigt den Job scheinbar ohne Mitgefühl. Aber Larry wird von Schuldgefühlen gequält, er glaubt sich verantwortlich für ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: God Jr.

Dt. v. Raimund Varga. Ö 2017, 136 S., geb., € 18.50
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Luftschacht

Jim sitzt seit einem Autounfall im Rollstuhl. Er hütet das Geheimnis um den Tod seines Sohnes Tommy, dessen Leiche man weit entfernt vom Unfallort fand. Um mit dem Tod des Teenagers fertigzuwerden, steckt Jim seine ganze Energie in die Errichtung eines riesigen Monuments, das Tommy in seinem Notizbuch in vielen Skizzen festgehalten hat. Die Vorlage dafür scheint aus einem Videospiel ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: The Marbled Swarm

A Novel. USA 2011, 194 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Literary cult hero Dennis Cooper delivers his highly anticipated new novel. Written in a voice that is lush and intricate, »The Marbled Swarm« is Dennis Cooper's most accomplished (and most beguiling) work to date. Cooper tells the story of a man who secretly influences his son to commit a grisly act. In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Smothered in Hugs

Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries. USA 2010, 377 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Harper Collins

From the internationally acclaimed author of »Ugly Man« and one of »the last literary outlaws in mainstream American fiction« (Bret Easton Ellis) comes a survey of his cultural criticism. From interviews with celebrities such as Leonard DiCaprio and Keanu Reeves to obituaries for Kurt Cobain and River Phoenix - to writings on social issues - including the touchstone piece »AIDS: ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Ugly Man: Stories

USA 2009, 240 pp., pb., € 24.95
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HarperPerennial

Internationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now - in stories - with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Ugly Man

Stories. USA 2009, 238 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The cult novelist's collection of short stories plumbs veins of dark humor amid the sex and gore his fans have come to expect. The contents range from short shorts - a rumination on »The Fifteen Worst Russian Gay Porn Web Sites« and an abortive episode entitled »One Night in 1979 I Did Too Much Coke and Couldn't Sleep and Had ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Frisk

USA 1991, 128 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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When Dennis is 13, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. Dennis is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and their power, their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. Surrounded by images of violence, the celebrity of ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: The Sluts

USA 2005, 263 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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The book opens with an online review of a hustler named Brad who has mental problems. A 2nd review follows, and then a 3rd. The novel is told through these reviews and through emails and posts on a website devoted to reviewing hustlers. The posts by these reviewers mix the empty, imitative language of pornography with a series of honest ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: God Jr.

USA 2005, 163 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Jim has been an emotional mess ever since that terrible day when he got into a car accident that killed his teenage son, Tommy. Tommy had been distant, transfixed by video games, a mystery to the man who raised him. Since the accident, Jim gets around in a wheelchair, this seems for him to be a perfectly good punishment for ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Try

UK 2004, 199 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Ziggy is the adopted son of two gay men, whose attempt at heterosexual-style domesticity has collapsed spectacularly. Now a deeply disturbed teenager, Ziggy lives with one father in L.A. who has been raping him since he was 8, while his other dad, a music critic in N.Y., has only reestablished contact with his son as a result of his own ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Wrong

UK 2004, 165 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Available again: »Wrong«, Dennis Cooper's first collection of short stories, written over a period of ten years (1980-1989), centres on a homosexual rapist and sadistic murderer called Ray, who preys on the teenage boys that flock around a Los Angeles high school. The characters drift from story into another, in much the way people drift in real life: from that ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: My Loose Thread

UK 2003, 121 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Larry is a teeange wrestling not only with his sexuality 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 ... Weiterlesen

Dennis Cooper: Closer

USA 1989, 132 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Grove Press

Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students with a mysterious promise, like a wallet lying on the street. Closer follows the links of desire that drag George into the arms of boys like John, an artist who deliberately drains his portraits of humanity; Alex, fascinated by splatter films and pornography; and Steve, an underground entrepreneur who ... Weiterlesen