 | One of These Things is Not Like the Other by D.Travers Scott
Buy used from: £2.26 This is seriously screwy fiction. As you finish the final chapter, you'll just sit there thinking 'w.t.f.?' See my Amazon Review for more.
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 | Sarah by J.T. LeRoy
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 LeRoy's breathtaking debut. 'Sarah' is a 12 year old boy who wants to be the best hooker in the business. Off-the-wall. And brilliant.
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 | The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoy
Buy new: £11.33 / Used from: £0.01 Even better than 'Sarah', and that's saying a lot. A young boy, mistreated and abused, is dragged from place to place by his drug-addict mother.
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 | My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.14 Bizarre. Shocking. Fantastic. Murder, rape, incest, drugs. The souless youth of America.
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 | Closer by Dennis Cooper
Buy used from: £9.99 Brutal and original. The first in the five book cycle...each work stands alone, though Dennis Cooper builds on his themes throughout the cycle.
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 | Frisk by Dennis Cooper
Buy used from: £6.86 The second: is there spirituality in rape, mutilation and murder?
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 | Try by Dennis. Cooper
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.20 The third: if you tear away the physical flesh, what remains?
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 | Guide by Dennis Cooper
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £2.46 The fourth: pederasty and the emptiness of the 'victims' who consent to torture and death.
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 | Period by Dennis Cooper
Buy used from: £2.29 Concluding the cycle and continuing the underlying themes; intense and completely bizarre.
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 | Saul's Book (Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Paul T. Rogers
Buy used from: £1.60 A forgotten masterpiece. The bleak, lonely, desolate existence of a hustler boy in New York. Unforgettable.
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 | The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 More nihilistic teenagers involved in casual sex and drugs.
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 | The Moralist by Rod Downey
Buy new: £9.34 / Used from: £7.28 Just buy it. A powerful novel about the totalitarian oppression of boys and boy-lovers. See my Amazon Review for more.
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 | Class Trip by Emmanuel Carrere
Buy new: £6.00 / Used from: £0.45 The inner world of a psychologically unbalanced child.
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 | Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £2.85 ''I'm going to run away one more time'': the narrator of this edgy and powerful work spends his life running from an abusive past that he can never escape.
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 | War Boy by Kief Hillsbery
Buy used from: £6.72 Kief Hillsbery's first book. Absolutely outstanding. A totally unique voice. Unforgettable.
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 | What We Do Is Secret by Kief Hillsbery
Buy new: £6.14 / Used from: £4.30 Kief Hillsbery's second novel: one of the most original works you'll ever read. Dark, intense and breathtaking. See my Review for more detail.
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 | Harold's End by J.T. LeRoy
Buy new: £7.79 / Used from: £4.24 Once again from LeRoy, simultaneously disturbing and touching. The love that the child narrator feels for his snail, Harold, is heart-wrenching.
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 | The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £4.23 Another gem from Dennis Cooper. Seems less hallucenogenic than some of his earlier works, but contains the usual assortment of rape, mutilation and murder...
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 | King of Cats: A Life in Five Novellas by Blake Fraina
Buy new: £14.49 / Used from: £7.45 Impressive and thought-provoking debut novel, focusing on power-struggles within relationships and the seductiveness of mystery.
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 | Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £0.01 Dark and graphic. An insight into the mind of two gay serial killers.
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 | Danny Volume 1 by Chancery Stone
Buy new: £14.44 Confidently and cleverly constructed novel that transgresses all boundaries. Incest, murder, blackmail. Exceptional characterization. Über-dark, and highly erotic.
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 | The Sex Offender: A Novel by Matthew Stadler
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £4.24 Superb work from the excellent Matthew Stadler. 'A Clockwork Orange'-style "rehabilitation" of a teacher who had a relationship with a 12 y o boy, and a stark criticism of the State.
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| Rene's Flesh by Virgilio Pinera
Buy used from: £8.32 Totally off-the-wall and bizarre work about a teenage boy who tries to fight against 'the cult of the flesh'.
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 | Eden Eden Eden (Modern Classics) by Pierre Guyotat
Buy used from: £18.00 Indescribable. The lack of a single full stop or complete sentence is the least bizarre aspect of this apocalyptic novel of brutal sex and violence.
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| Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers by Guy Davenport
Buy used from: £16.43 Obscure, fascinating, erotic, confusing and beguiling - some of Davenport's best. Short stories and a superb novella set in a Danish boarding school.
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