The Sluts

The Sluts
by Dennis Cooper

The Sluts
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Author: Dennis Cooper
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-19
ISBN: 0786716746
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Book Review: Cooper returns to form.
Summary: 5 Stars

Outside of his short, different-genre "God Jr.," which was brilliant, I found Cooper's last few efforts disappointing. Mostly it seemed like Cooper was disengaged and even bored by his own writing (he hinted at this a bit in some of his meta-fiction). "The Sluts," though, is one of Cooper's best, and he seems fully invigorated. Maybe the style of the book -- chat postings and E-mails -- tweaked things just enough to get him interested, or maybe it's just that that stylistic decision works so well with his acoustic prose.

Or maybe it was just that Cooper has such a fun time with his twisty plot. The novel tells the story of a typical Cooper character -- a young, androgynous kid with a lot of problems -- and all the older men who want to use and exploit him. The setting and denizens are all typical Cooper. So is the extreme sex and violence. Cooper's genre is of the pedophile-and-child-killer variety, but he gives vibrant life to these deviants, and his prose is so beautifully unadorned and perfect that he can make these ungodly subjects fascinating. Cooper's brand of evil is the scariest kind: blunt and matter of fact. Cooper is one of the few authors who can still make me shiver and wince, and "The Sluts" does that plenty.

"The Sluts" -- even with its pretzel plot -- once again explores man's primal, violent urges, which exist in all of us, and reveals how we lose ourselves in our dark fantasies.

To those who are shocked that this book contains "graphic images": what did you expect? Even a few seconds of research will tell you that Cooper is a very intense author who holds nothing back.

If you're like me and felt Cooper's last few books -- "Period," "My Loose Thread" -- weren't as good as his earlier novels, "The Sluts" is a must. It is a deliriously assured return to form.

Summary of The Sluts

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators, The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a metafiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date.

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