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by Dennis Cooper (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd; New edition edition (19 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841954128
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841954127
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 16.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 400,252 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to almost all that surrounds him. As the book opens, Larry has been paid USD 500 by a senior to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry delves into the notebook, complications arise...An immensely powerful work that explores teenage depression, moral vacuity and the confusion of love, My Loose Thread is a claustrophobic and harrowing piece of fiction.


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DENNIS COOPER is best known for his recently completed cycle of five novels - Closer, Frisk., Try, Guide and Period, all published in the UK by Serpent's Tail. He lives in Los Angeles.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Rewritten maturity, 28 Aug 2002
By DM Webster "arakis2002" (Norfolk) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Loose Thread (Hardcover)
Although I 'enjoy' (wrong word) Dennis Cooper's books I have had the feeling for some time that his plot is simply rewritten in each book. His obsession with dark haired, skinny boys, aberrant sexual relationships, insecurity about sexuality, murder and rape appear in each book. This worked detrimentally towards the end of his five book cycle; Period was dire and incomprehensible, but Cooper is back on form. There is a new maturity to his writing. Gone are the sentences where the subject is uncertain, and the prose is fuller and clearer. He is to be commended for trying to push forward the way the novel is written but his experiments didn't always work. This is more conventionally written and deals with his usual issues in a fuller manner. Cooper seems clearer about his stance as narrator in this novel and deserves to be heard.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I will never forget this book, 29 Oct 2006
This book affected me so much that 10 minutes after reading it my teeth were chattering, 30 minutes after reading it I was crying inconsolably, and 6 weeks after reading it I'd written my first novel! Everyone has their own tastes, and this book is neither for the easily offended nor for those looking for a 'light read'. But I personally was deeply affected by this book, and still can't get it out of my mind months later.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars well..., 4 Mar 2003
This review is from: My Loose Thread (Hardcover)
the first Cooper book i've read. i finished it a couple of months ago, and struggle now to remember anything particular about it. and this is my first point; it is all written on the flat. the author has an excellent ear for dialogue, and is pleasingly experimental with his syntax, but the voice remains the same throughout. Larry in a car being troubled and talking about murder, Larry in his room being troubled and talking about murder, Larry back in his car again being...etc. i couldn't help feeling the whole thing was something of a glamorisation of troubled youth too. rather than charting what is actually present in the disturbed young male psyche, i had the impression Cooper was charting it rather as he wanted it to be. overall, i felt i got more out of the book stylistically than content-wise. that said, it is an intelligent, unusual piece of work, and should be valued for these qualities which are present all too rarely in books published today.
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