God Jr. / Dennis Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, Dennis, 1953-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traffic accident victims--Family relationships--Fiction.

Traffic accident victims.

Traffic accident victims--Family relationships.

Teenage boys.

Death.

Traffic accident victims--Fiction.

Teenage boys--Death--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology)--Fiction.

Loss (Psychology).

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Sons--Death--Fiction.

Sons.

Sons--Death.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

163 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Black Cat, [2005]

Summary:

Dennis Cooper has been praised as a writer of "disquieting genius" by Vanity Fair, and has earned international acclaim as one of America's finest writers. God Jr. is a stunning "craggy brain twister" (Time Out New York)-the haunting story of Jim, a father who survived the car crash that killed his teenage son, Tommy.

Tommy had been distant, transfixed by video games, a mystery to the man who raised him. Now, disabled by the accident, yearning to absolve his own guilt, Jim becomes obsessed with a mysterious building Tommy drew repetitively in a notebook before he died. As Jim and his wife love, flail, screw up, and search in the most unlikely places for ways to make sense of loss, Dennis Cooper gives us a tender, wrenching look at guilt, grief, and the tenuous bonds of family that is unlike anything he has ever written and "probably Cooper's best yet" (Kirkus Reviews).

Contents:

The Crowd Pleaser 1

The Remedial Logician 41

The Childish Scrawl 79.

Notes:

"A pbk. original of Grove/Atlantic, Inc."

ISBN:

0802170110

OCLC:

57434217