Dennis Cooper 
Ugly Man 
Stories

[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 nowin storieswith a sense of awareness and a satirical touch that exploits and winks at his mastery of this world. As it has done for decades, Coopers taut, controlled prose lays bare the compulsions and troubling emptiness of the human soul.