George Miles Cycle Series by Dennis Cooper

3.74 · 50 ratings
  • Closer (George Miles Cycle #1)
    #1

    Closer (George Miles Cycle #1)

    Dennis Cooper

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1989

    Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind with visions of nightmare intensity in a world where stimulation without excitement and experience without emotion are prized.

  • Frisk (George Miles Cycle #2)
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    Frisk (George Miles Cycle #2)

    Dennis Cooper

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1991

    Cooper says, "I present the actual act of evil so it's visible and give it a bunch of facets so that you can actually look at it and experience it. You're seduced into dealing with it. ... So with Frisk, whatever pleasure you got out of making a picture in your mind based on ... those people being murdered, you take responsibility for it." In unsparingly confessional mode, Cooper leads the reader into a confrontation with what they get out of fantasized scenes of violence... more

  • Guide (George Miles Cycle #4)
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    Guide (George Miles Cycle #4)

    Dennis Cooper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 1997

    Chris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else's hand; Mason has lurid fantasies about members of British pop bands; Sniffles is a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life. Courtesy of a frankly manipulative author/narrator named Dennis, these characters and more move through a subterranean Los Angeles where hallucination and reality, sex and suicide, love and indifference run together in terrifying ways... more

  • Period (George Miles Cycle #5)
    #5

    Period (George Miles Cycle #5)

    Dennis Cooper

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2000

    The stunning conclusion to Dennis Cooper's five-book cycle, Period earned its author the accolade "a disquieting genius" by Vanity Fair and praise for his "elegant prose and literary lawlessness" by The New York Times. The culmination of Cooper's explorations into sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable object of desire, Period is a breathtaking, mesmerizing final statement to the five-book cycle it completes... more

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