{"product_id":"ugly-man-stories-9780061715440","title":"Ugly Man: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\" A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented, elegant stylist whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction.\" --Bret Easton Ellis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternationally acclaimed writer Dennis Cooper continues to study the material he's always explored honestly, but does so now--in stories--with a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Cooper's taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCooper, Dennis:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDennis Cooper is the author of the George Miles Cycle, an interconnected sequence of five novels: \u003cem\u003eCloser\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFrisk\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTry\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuide\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePeriod\u003c\/em\u003e. His other works include \u003cem\u003eMy Loose Thread\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Sluts\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of France's Prix Sade and the Lambda Literary Award; \u003cem\u003eGod, Jr.\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eWrong\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eThe Dream Police\u003c\/em\u003e; and \u003cem\u003eUgly Man\u003c\/em\u003e. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50725257019666,"sku":"9780061715440","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fc010591-1bc4-48a4-b09d-bb0a6c1a0e7c.jpg?v=1734822500","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ugly-man-stories-9780061715440","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}