{"product_id":"frisk","title":"Frisk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSecond in the award-winning George Miles Cycle, \"as intense a dissection of human relationships and obsession that modern literature has ever attempted\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Dennis is thirteen, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. Dennis is not shocked but stunned by their mystery and their power; their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrounded by images of violence, the celebrity of horror, news of disease, a wasteland of sex, Dennis flies to Europe, having discovered some clues about the photographs: \"I see these criminals on the news who've killed someone methodically, and they're free. They know something amazing. You can just tell.\" An isolated windmill in Holland provides the perfect setting for Dennis to find out more about bodies-of which there are many--and what is inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFrisk\u003c\/i\u003e, as in the award-winning \u003ci\u003eCloser\u003c\/i\u003e, Dennis Cooper explores the limits of our knowledge and the dividing line between the body and the spirit. \u003ci\u003eFrisk \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about the power of fantasy and faith, about the ecstasy and horror of being human.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A significant work of fiction. Cooper . . . wants to lead us into the wormy heart of the murderous impulse.\"--Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Destined to classic status.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dennis Cooper, a disturbing and transcendent artist, enters the mind of a killer and comes out with genuine revelation.\" --Michael Silverblatt, host of \u003ci\u003eBookworm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An electrifying study in carnage.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0802132898\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780802132895\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Cooper, Dennis\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Nov 1993)","offer_id":46080360415429,"sku":"9780802132895","price":14.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780802132895.jpg?v=1776036625","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/frisk","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}