Smothered in HugsIn another country or another era, Dennis Coopers books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe. New York Times Book Review His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality. San Francisco Chronicle From the internationally acclaimed author of Ugly Man and one of the last

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When Sam’s dad dies in a car accident

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it stops for a few seconds

He’s the 22

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and the authorities dictate what the “truth” is

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but Mike's is a doozy

where—on Midsummer’s Day

Laura's family's first home in Minnesota is made of sod