Cooper immerses us in Dennis's conflicting thoughts, which he articulates with frightening lucidity. When Julian accidentally knocks the youth's head against a table, the incident triggers in Dennis an ongoing obsession-the perverse imagining of murdering anonymous lovers after sex. One of their partners is a drugged-up young man who turns out to be the model in faked snuff photos Dennis discovered as a teen. In the '70s, Dennis and his lover, Julian, engage in three-way sexual encounters with strangers. Cooper traces key episodes in Dennis's life over two decades, following his interest in gay pornography. The narrator of this study in brutal sexuality and psychosis is an emotionally detached, intelligent man named Dennis. Cooper has produced edgy works of fiction ( Safe Closer ), but this novel is his most disturbing.
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