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Frisk /

0802113990

0802132898

9780802113993

9780802132895

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Frisk /

[Book]

Dennis Cooper.

First edition.

New York :

Grove Weidenfeld,

1991.

128 pages ;

22 cm

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.

"Possessed by the mystery of a series of fake snuff photographs he was shown as a teenager, Dennis, the narrator of 'Frisk', lives in a world where the rules of attraction have become a treasure hunt, and love is only a matching of images and body parts. In Holland, in a room in a windmill above a brewery, Dennis is freed from the need to respect feelings; the unimaginable becomes an idea, and the idea a reality."--Publisher description.

When Dennis is thirteen, 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 horror, news of disease, a wasteland of sex, Dennis flies to Europe, having discovered some clues about the photographs: "I see these criminals on the news who've killed someone methodically, and they're free. They know something amazing. You can just tell." What they know may lie in bodies themselves. Bodies are unavoidably real; what's in them must have something to say, even in a society that lives on images and fantasies. An isolated windmill in Holland provides the perfect setting for Dennis to find out more about bodies--of which there are many--and what is inside them--[from the author's website].

Death, Fiction.

Gay men, Fiction.

Death.

Gay men-- Sexuality, Fiction.

Gay men.

Cooper, Dennis,1953-

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