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1. All Editions: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
- The original publication date is incorrect. It should just be 1994. I can’t find a month or day, but it was almost certainly not published on New Year’s Day.
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2. Hardcover: Try (ISBN 9780802115423)
- The publication date is incorrect. The copyright page says 1994. I don’t have a specific month or date, so it should just be 1994.
- The publisher should be Grove Press.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the book’s jacket:
Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left him stranded with one and increasingly present in the fantasies of the other. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires in Ziggy a fierce and awkward devotion.
Terminally insecure and yet inured to sexual brutality, Ziggy questions his two fathers, his uncle, his drug dealer, his friends, and himself in an attempt to isolate and define the vagaries and boundaries of sexuality, attraction, and abuse, compiling their responses into a magazine that he calls I Apologize.
In prose that is taut, rhythmic, charged, chillingly precise, and beautifully controlled, Cooper examines his characters’ motivations not as the product of cultural coercion but as the emanations of something hungry and amoral and essentially human. Try explores “that buried need to go all the way and really possess someone,” that place where desire disintegrates into the irrational. He illuminates with utter clarity the need to claim the desirable, to possess wholly something that will fulfill the profound emptiness of the human soul.
With Try, Cooper has produced a novel even more complex than his previous books, dangerously innovative and with the startling familiarity of truth in its examination of love, obsession, devotion, and the depths of human need.
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2. Paperback: Try (ISBN 9780802133380)
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers whose failed experiment at nuclear-family domesticity has left him stranded with one and increasingly present in the fantasies of the other. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires in Ziggy a fierce and awkward devotion. In Try, Cooper illuminates with utter clarity the need to possess wholly something that will fill the profound emptiness of the human soul.
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3. Kindle: Try: A Novel (ASIN B005R17YJW)
- “A Novel” needs to be removed from the title.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenage son of two sexually abusive fathers. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires in Ziggy a fierce and awkward devotion.
Terminally insecure and yet inured to sexual brutality, Ziggy questions his two fathers, his uncle, his drug dealer, his friends, and himself in an attempt to isolate and define the vagaries and boundaries of sexuality, attraction, and abuse, compiling their responses into a journal that he calls I Apologize.
Try follows Closer and Frisk in Dennis Cooper’s award-winning George Miles Cycle, “a crowning achievement in American letters—a moment where a New World writer has created something as beguiling, baffling, beautiful and intelligent as anything by Genet or Joyce” (The Guardian).
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4. Ebook Try (ISBN 9781555847722)
- The cover art is extremely small. High-quality cover art available from the publisher site here: https://groveatlantic.com/core/wp-con... // https://groveatlantic.com/book/try/
As a note, there is currently no ebook tab on the publisher site and the cover art has the paperback’s ISBN in the URL, but archived versions of the site show that the cover art on the site was used for the ebook cover as well: https://web.archive.org/web/201903060...
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5. Finnish Edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
- The ISBN-13 is missing. It should be 9789515782748.
- The ASIN is missing. It should be 9515782740.
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6. Invalid editions
These editions were created by the Goodreads bot importing secondhand Amazon sellers and should be marked invalid.
A. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
B. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
C. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
D. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
E. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...