I Wished by Dennis Cooper
'I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about him honestly like I am doing now I felt a complicated agony beneath my words that talking openly can't handle.' For most of his life, Dennis Cooper believed the person he had loved the most and would always love above all others was George Miles. In his first novel in ten years, Dennis Cooper writes about George Miles, love, loss, addiction, suicide, and how fiction can capture these things, and how it fails to capture them. Candid and powerful, I Wished is a radical work of shifting forms. It includes appearances by Santa Claus, land artist James Turrell, sentient prairie dogs, John Wayne Gacy, Nick Drake, and George, the muse for Cooper's acclaimed novels Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period, collectively known as 'The George Miles Cycle.' In revisiting the inspiration for the Cycle, Dennis has written a masterwork: the most raw, personal, and haunted book of his career.Dennis Cooper is the author of The George Miles Cycle, a five-novel interwoven series (Closer, Frisk, Try, Guide, and Period) that has been translated into sixteen languages and has been hailed as the most important transgressive literary artist since Burroughs (Salon). Cooper has also written a collection of short stories called Wrong, as well as various collections of poetry, including The Dream Police. He currently resides in Los Angeles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781641293754 |
| ISBN 10 | 1641293756 |
| Title | I Wished |
| Author | Dennis Cooper |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Soho Press |
| Year published | 2022-08-16 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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