Dennis Cooper
1) I wished
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in ten years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. Candid and powerful, I Wished is a radical work of shifting forms. It includes appearances by Santa Claus, land artist James Turrell,...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From literary cult hero Dennis Cooper comes his most haunting work to date.
"An American master…. Cooper is the most important transgressive literary artist since Burroughs." --Salon
In secret passageways, hidden rooms, and the troubled mind of our narrator, a mystery perpetually takes shape-and the most compelling clue to its final nature is "the marbled swarm" itself, a complex amalgam of language passed down from father to son.
Cooper ensnares...
3) God Jr
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
God Jr. is the story of Jim, a father who survived the car crash that killed his teenage son Tommy. Tommy was distant, transfixed by video games and pop culture, and a mystery to the man who raised him. Now, disabled by the accident, yearning somehow to absolve his own guilt over the crash, Jim becomes obsessed with a mysterious building Tommy drew repetitively in a notebook before he died. As the fixation grows, Jim starts to take on elements of...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories-among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story-that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction. This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in which impressionistic, hallucinatory, and realistic...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The incredible variety of Acker's body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communiqué from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Suave Harvard Medical School grad Ray Howard seems destined to specialize in womanizing. That is, until he heads to Florida to intern under the tutelage of chief resident Dr. Sidney Zachary. With help from his girlfriend, 'Dr. Z' sets out to mold Ray into a caring, responsible doctor. Along the way, he shares some important truths and a whole lot of humor in this sexy romantic comedy.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Set against the seamy and steamy Miami underworld, stubble-faced detective Sonny Crockett lives in a sailboat that is guarded by his pet alligator Elvis. His partner, Ricardo Tubbs, is an ex-New York cop looking for his brother's killer. Together they take on the Florida drug world.
