{"product_id":"9781555847746","title":"Guide","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brilliant novel of LA’s underground from the author of \u003ci\u003eCloser\u003c\/i\u003e, “the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction” (Bret Easton Ellis).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else’s hand; Mason has lurid fantasies about members of British pop bands; Sniffles is a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life. Courtesy of a frankly manipulative author\/narrator named Dennis, these characters move through a subterranean Los Angeles where hallucination and reality, sex and suicide, love and indifference run together in terrifying ways.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuide\u003c\/i\u003e, the fourth novel in a projected five-book cycle, continues to explore the boundaries of experience in the manner that has earned Dennis Cooper comparisons to Poe, Genet, and Baudelaire.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The most seductively frightening, best written novel of contemporary urban life that anyone has attempted in a long time; it’s the funniest, too.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “With \u003ci\u003eGuide\u003c\/i\u003e, America’s most daring novelist has given us his masterpiece.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Face\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Make[s] \u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e seem tame . . . A brilliantly base tale of human self-destruction for the brave.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Dante’s \u003ci\u003eInferno \u003c\/i\u003ewith George Bataille as your escort, damaged yet exhilarating.” —\u003ci\u003eArena\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Though the story is as compelling as it is perverse, Cooper purposefully overrides it with an innovative style and raw, truthful character studies . . . With \u003ci\u003eGuide\u003c\/i\u003e, Cooper claims his place, alongside Genet and Burroughs, as a master of his own disenfranchised generation.” —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133374546160,"sku":"9781555847746","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555847746_p0.jpg?v=1763754043","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555847746","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}