Ugly Man: Stories - Dennis Cooper

Acclaimed cult-writer Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored so honestly--pornography, violence, and mutilation--but with a satirical touch. This is high-risk literature.--The New York Times Book Review. n n[A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy.

He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction. --Bret Easton Ellisn nInternationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now--in stories--with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the human soul.n n n