Physically beautiful and strangely passive, George Miles attracts his fellow students with a mysterious promise, like a wallet lying on the street. One after another, his teenage friends rifle through George, ransacking him for love or anything else they could trust in the...
Like Jean Genet and William Burroughs, Dennis Cooper assaults the senses as he engages the mind with visions of nightmare intensity in a world where stimulation without excitement and experience without emotion are prized.
The first novel in the notorious, award-winning George Miles Cycle--"a crowning achievement in American letters from] a master of transgressive fiction" (Tony O'Neill, The Guardian, UK). Proclaimed "the most dangerous writer in America" by the Village...