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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�student 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,�this is a claustrophobic and harrowing piece of fiction.
- Sales Rank: #96606 in Books
- Published on: 2003-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .40" w x 5.00" l, .34 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 130 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Cooper's latest, after a loosely intertwined series of novels ending with Period, stays firmly rooted in the same bleak, volatile landscape as his past works involving neglected, gay teenaged boys. Perpetually distraught teenager Larry, whose mantra is "I'm really confused," joins forces with a friend who has been approached at school by older classmate Gilman Crowe, leader of a Nazi-style teen group, and hired to kill a student for $500 and destroy his notebook, basically a diary containing the boys' personal secrets. The deed is done, but not exactly according to plan, and the violence continues. Larry and his 13-year-old brother habitually sneak into bed with each other, though Larry continues to be at war with his burgeoning homosexuality. An alcoholic mother and cancer-stricken father offer little supervision, and Larry's brutal rages escalate. When another of Larry's friends, Rand, tells him his incestuous relationship is "sick," Larry punches him; Rand dies soon afterward, apparently of natural causes, but Larry is crushed by guilt and haunted by the death. Cooper's bleak, potent tale wraps up in a Columbine-style climax, complete with smirking, self-righteous students watching the bloodbath with amusement. Cooper doesn't cover much new territory with this latest ultraviolent tale of boys gone wrong, but Larry's first-person narration is mesmerizing and believable. Those new to Cooper may be better off starting elsewhere in his oeuvre, especially since it can be hard to follow the sequence of events in this spare, dialogue-driven tale. Still, Cooper fans will likely eat this up.
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Review
"Elegant prose and literary lawlessness . . . In another country or another era, Cooper's books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe . . . high risk literature."� —New York Times
"Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer."� —William Burroughs
"Larry's first-person narration is mesmerizing and believable. . . . Cooper fans will likely eat this up."� —Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Dennis Cooper is a novelist, poet, critic, editor, and performance artist. His books include�God Jr., The Sluts, and Ugly Man: Stories. He lives in Los Angeles.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
About being unique
By Grady Harp
Dennis Cooper is a writer who is creating his own niche in literature. He is eloquent while being brutal, comprehendable while writing about insanity, tender while describing the most perilous of situations, and a master at living inside the heads of troubled youths. MY LOOSE THREAD is more like an epic poem in dialogue than it is a novel. There is story here - grand Guignol story - but the madness of the narrative comes solely through the voices of the participants in this far from normal setting. And like an epic poem, this story begs to be read in one sitting. The dialogue is intense but the depth of meaning behind even short phrases requires deep concentration on the part of the reader.
Some people may be put off by the style or the subject of this book - Cooper climbs inside the psyches of young gay boys and tries to sort out the confusion and challenges of the real versus the fantasy. But get past whatever might disturb you about the story and you will be witness to a major talent. It will be invigorating to read a long novel by this gifted writer.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Teach Your Children Well
By MICHAEL ACUNA
To say that Dennis Cooper's "My Loose Thread" is a tough read would be an understatement. In fact it would be a gross understatement. For "MLT" is a story about Larry, a whacked-out teenager heading for his own destruction at the speed of light: both unaware and seemingly uncaring about his own descent into oblivion and ultimately death.
"MLT" tells the story of the deep underbelly of suburban, privileged teenage life: a life that many of us would rather not hear about. But, to Cooper's credit he does not shy away from the realities of this life and just like the drawing on the book sleeve, we emerge psychically bloodied from the experience of reading about it.
The bare bones of the story involve Larry, his brother Jim, friends named Rand (dead at the beginning of the novella), Jude (Larry's erstwhile Girlfriend) and Gilman-a skinhead who has hired Larry to murder a fellow student (known only as "the boy") for no reason other than for Gilman to possess the boy's notebook. There are also a couple of reporters called the "Franks"" who are following Larry and Jim ("I guess she's writing about guys in high school and depression.")
Larry is the narrator and it is very difficult at times to follow his thoughts which he expresses through a kind of adolescent, valley-boy stream of consciousness:" ...she can see depressed guys like we're ghosts. We don't have to move. We don't even have to talk to her first. She says my problem is rage mixed with some bigger word, so I don't interest her...at first I was thinking she'd save me from Jim if she used the right words, but he's too complicated so far. That's her thing...I used to care what was wrong with Jim too, he made it seem that what I did to him helped, but I guess I was sick, and it didn't."
Larry, like most teenage guys is having some problems with his sexual identity: "He was my best friend. I think he was in love with me, but I wasn't gay, so he turned into a drug addict. Now all my friends are messed up guys who are in love with me."
"So you fell in love with one of them?"
"It's more like I worry I will." Larry also has problems with alcohol: "When I stopped getting drunk, I turned into a liar. That's the only way I could stop."
Dennis Cooper has written a difficult, unsparingly cold look at what it is to be a teenager among a very specific group of young adults. Be forewarned that he pulls no punches, leaves no stone unturned. It's going to take me a while to get this book and it's inhabitants out of my mind.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
this is transgressive fiction
By A Customer
every time i read a dennis cooper book, i think, "good god. he can't do anything better than this," and then the next book always makes me revise it. this one did that again, but in a farm more sophisticated way.
in the first part of the book, i wondered if this was going to be a different version of _frisk_, in which the reader is made to secretly enjoy the atrocities performed by the protagonist. while i like that idea a lot, it doesn't really make a book that i'd cherish, like i did _closer_ and _try_.
but dennis did something that is both fantastic and harrowing. he made the protagonist into a beatiful person who i could love. i saw pieces of myself and others in him and found myself excusing his actions toward other people.
the parts that stand out the most are the recurrent paragraphs in which cooper reveals a little more about what happened with Rand, the failed interactions between the protagonist and his brother (the snap on the jeans... wow), and the description of the boy (curling up on the couch in particular). cutting, crying during sex, someone not realizing they yelled until after they did it, and so on... this book is incredible.
maybe it's shock fiction, but it isn't *just* shock fiction. it's something more. there's a very humyn core that's beautiful and painful. the real visceral effect of this book comes from the emotions that it inspires with subtle waves of the hand and smirks... flashes of the horrific real winking at you. that makes it a million times as subversive as other shock books. this is real transgressive fiction.
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