Books by Dennis Cooper

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. As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook.

Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles becomes the object of his friends' passions and, one after another, they ransack him for love or anything else they can trust in the vacuum of middle America. What they find assaults the senses as it engages the mind, in a novel that explores the limits of experience.