false <![CDATA[Period]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170381284m/51589.jpg 51589 4 <div>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. Cooper has taken his familiar themes -- strangely irresistible and interchangeable young men, passion that crosses into murder, the lure of drugs, the culpabilities of authorship, and the inexact, haunting communication of feeling-and melded them into a novel of flawless form and immense power. Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret Web sites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and outsider art, Period is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical. Obsessive, beautiful, and darkly comic, Period is a stunning achievement from one of America's finest writers.</div> 50336 2000 Period total:168|5:44|4:53|3:45|2:20|1:6| 168 613 205 9 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 01 16:36:58 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 16:45:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 09 22:50:11 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 20:05:53 -0700 2008 Guide), and not the worst (Try), but certainly the most frantic and experimental of them.


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This book is incredible, and within the structure of the the cycle it's even more perfect. This book alternatively makes me want to write write write and also spend forever figuring everything in this out-- but then I realize I'm not sure what's left to figure out? Like...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Sep 17 17:00:05 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 19:33:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 05 08:22:34 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 08:38:54 -0700 2008 1 0 false false Tue Jun 03 20:24:15 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 20:26:58 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Sat Jan 05 16:26:50 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 16:27:35 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 22 19:08:57 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 19:08:57 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 18 09:58:58 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 09:58:58 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Nov 15 09:57:52 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 09:57:52 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 23:44:19 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 23:44:26 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 27 16:21:13 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 16:21:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 19 20:42:44 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 20:42:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 14 11:13:41 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 11:13:41 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 10:22:36 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 10:23:26 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 10 16:50:07 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 16:50:07 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 15:13:44 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 15:13:44 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Sep 14 22:39:12 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 22:39:12 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=51589