The Independent - London, November 12th, 2000
Period By Dennis Cooper SERPENT'S TAIL pounds 8.99 So this is how it ends. After five volumes, Dennis Cooper arrives at the end of his terrifying odyssey through the dark side of American existence. With each new book, the author has seemed to grow more alienated from his age, as the disaffected, indie-loving alter- ego he created for himself in the first volume, Frisk, slowly mutated into the dance-music- despising, nostalgic narrator of the fourth book, Guide. Upon finishing the latter, I found it hard to imagine where Cooper could go, as there seemed little territory left to transgress. ...
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