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All done except for the entry #5, I just edit some details but I didn't separated it from the editions of the book.
The Edition field on the Kindle edition (Entry 3) still says that it's a paperback edition. Could you please remove that?
One last bump before I start a separate thread for the last correction needed.
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1. Hardcover: Guide (ISBN 9780802116086)
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be Grove Press.
- The publication date is incorrect. It should be May 1997.
- The edition field says “1st, First edition”. This is redundant and one of those should be removed.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:
Dennis Cooper’s previous books have earned him comparisons to Poe, Baudelaire, and Genet, and thrust him to the forefront of radical new American fiction. Guide is his most original and shocking to date. Written in prose that challenges both the form and content of the novel, and possessed with a narrative of intense power, Guide’s utterly mesmerizing tone pushes writing on sex, death, and love to a new height.
Narrated in a voice that at times may be construed as the author’s own, Guide is the story of the conflict between a novelist’s fantasy life and his inability to represent it in language. Remembering the clarity and omnipotence he felt during an LSD trip in his teens, “Dennis” drops acid and attempts to write a novel that will make sense of his life, his desires, his friends, and his art, and distinguish what is real from the distortions created by his overactive imagination.
Dennis’s sexual relationship with Chris – an addict who fantasizes about being killed – pushes him to the very edge of emotions he has only imagined. His platonic love for Luke, an imaginative, but far more innocent, friend, offers possible salvation from his otherwise crazy life. In episodic chapters that criss-cross through time, Guide weaves together Dennis’s story with these and other characters, including Goof, a young and amazingly innocent porn star, Sniffles, a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life, and Mason, whose lurid desires are rivaled only by Dennis’s own.
The fourth volume in Cooper’s five-novel cycle, Guide is his deepest study yet of the darker side of human need and the terrifying nature of desire.
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2. Paperback: Guide (ISBN 9780802135803)
- The publication date is incorrect. It should be September 21, 1998.
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3. Kindle: Guide (ASIN B005FFPUT6)
- The edition field should be removed. This is not a paperback.
- The description is missing paragraph breaks. It should read as follows:
A brilliant novel of LA’s underground from the author of Closer, “the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction” (Bret Easton Ellis).
Chris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else’s hand; Mason has lurid fantasies about members of British pop bands; Sniffles is a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life. Courtesy of a frankly manipulative author/narrator named Dennis, these characters move through a subterranean Los Angeles where hallucination and reality, sex and suicide, love and indifference run together in terrifying ways.
Guide, the fourth novel in a projected five-book cycle, continues to explore the boundaries of experience in the manner that has earned Dennis Cooper comparisons to Poe, Genet, and Baudelaire.
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4. Invalid Edition
The following edition was created by the bot importing a secondhand seller and needs to be marked invalid:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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5. Completely Unrelated Book: Blackout (ISBN 9788495627117)
- This book has nothing to do with Guide but for some reason the bot assigned it to this editions page. It needs to be separated from Guide and combined with this book: https://www.goodreads.com/work/editio...
- To prevent any further merge or combine issues, the ISBN-10 should also be 8495627116.
- To prevent any further potential merge or combine issues, the description should be changed. Transcribed from the back of the book as seen on its Amazon page:
Blackout es el poema del fin de una época. Sin embargo, a diferencia de The Waste Land de T. S. Eliot, no encontraremos ningún horizonte de salvación estética o religiosa en el colapso de los significados, ni deleite en la emancipación del archivo de las palabras con respecto a los cuerpos. Su abril fue el del día 7 de 1979, que acabó, no sólo con los huesos de Nanni Balestrini, Toni Negri y decenas de militantes de Autonomia Operaia en prisión, sino también con los sueños de una generación. El poema es un acto de resistencia que permitirá continuar viviendo después de la catástrofe. Balestrini monta, compone, recombina, escande series lingüísticas heterogéneas: extractos de los procedimientos judiciales contra el movimiento italiano de la década de 1970, artículos de opinión biempensante contra la “violencia subversiva”, memorias de antiguos exiliados italianos, crónicas de aquel otro blackout (apagón) neoyorquino y salvaje del 13 de julio de 1977, descripciones del Mont Blanc fronterizo extraídas de una guía de viajes, ensayos políticos acerca del "obrero social", nuevo protagonista de la autonomía y la autovaloración.
En un principio Balestrini proyectó Blackout como un montaje escénico y musical para el cantante, investigador sonoro y activista Demetrio Stratos. Sin embargo, la repentina muerte de este último, así como la tormenta de represión del Estado del “compromiso histórico”, que canceló la existencia política del “largo 68” italiano, impidieron que el proyecto se llevara a cabo. En el exilio francés, Balestrini entrega no obstante este monumento de un futuro cancelado y de una realidad-lenguaje tratada y arrebatada a la cárcel, el compromiso infame, la violencia paranoica del principio de realidad capitalista y el aplastamiento despiadado de uno de los periodos más lúcidos y potentes de la
práctica colectiva europea.