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One Night in 1979 I Did Too Much Coke and Couldn't Sleep - cover

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One Night in 1979 I Did Too Much Coke and Couldn't Sleep

Dennis Cooper

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

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“[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 
Internationally 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.
Available since: 05/26/2010.

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