- Hardcover: 199 pages
- Publisher: Grove Pr (February 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 080211542X
- ISBN-13: 978-0802115423
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,926,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ziggy is the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers, from whose obsessive attentions he flees into the weird world of his uncle, an amoral man who makes violent pornography. As scenes of fierce sex and sadistic oppression take place around him, Ziggy falls improbably in love -- with his best friend, a junkie. Dennis Cooper, author of the gay horror classic Frisk, returns in this novel to his characteristic themes of alienated youth, voyeurism and twisted Todenlust, except this time the horrors are as grounded in emotions as they are in the body.
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Cooper's disturbing new novel, like Frisk and Closer , explores the gritty, homoerotic subculture of a nondescript California suburb while chronicling two days in the life of Ziggy, the adolescent, adopted son of two sexually abusive gay fathers. Angelically beautiful and extremely insecure, Ziggy scarcely sleeps or attends high school, but struggles to articulate his own emotional life by compiling the latest issue of his fanzine, a crude journal about sexual abuse called "I Apologize." Ziggy's unlikely mentors include his uncle Ken, who produces child pornography, his friend Calhoun, an aspiring writer who has withdrawn into a heroin-induced haze, and Roger, the less violent of his two fathers, who, with Humbert Humbert-like detachment, extolls the virtues of Ziggy's anatomy. Cooper's narrative, clinical and often pornographic, rigorously refrains from moralizing. Cutting cinematically back and forth between characters, his prose is jumpy and convoluted when describing Ziggy, dazed and analytical when depicting Calhoun, drained of affect when chronicling the appalling antics of Ziggy's uncle, who spends much of the novel drugging and raping a 13-year-old heavy metal fan he has picked up somewhere. Cooper's novel is less a case study in sexual abuse, however, than a window on a nightmarish suburban world, where domestic norms are subverted to such a degree that adults are either pointedly absent or predatory pedophiles, and where stunted but angelic teenagers take solace in drugs, sexual promiscuity and punk rock.
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Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
What's bigger, Cooper's heart or his nerve?,
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One of the warmest stories of friendship I've ever had the honor to read.Yes, it's edgy. Yes, it's sexual. But, when you get right down to it, it's about the love and friendship between these two boys. I must say, I was shocked by one scene in the book. Not so much because of the inappropriate behovior of the characters, but by the fact that Cooper had the nerve to be so.. so... un-p.c.. Anyway, it's all warm fuzzies, only with teeth (not to mention fists...).
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My favorite one!,
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This is by far my favorite book from Mr. Cooper. And it's his most accessible one yet because it is not as warped as his other works.I can't help but feel compassion for the ziggy character and love the storyline from beginning to end. A great one indeed!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very Unusual,
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This is my first Dennis Cooper book so it took me several pages to get use to his style of writing. At first I found this choppy style quite annoying; howerver, one I got into the book, it became easier to concentrate on the plot.I found the book disturbing simply because of the subject matter, child pornograpy, pedophilia, drug abuse, and necrophilia all wraped up in one. I guess my curiosy keep me reading this book to find out how this all would end. I can honestly say that this was not one of my favorite books.
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