{"product_id":"cooper-dennis-closer","title":"COOPER, Dennis. Closer.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eON HOLD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCOOPER, Dennis. \u003cem\u003eCloser\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eNew York: Grove Press, 1989\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo (208 x 135 mm). [x], [2], 131, [134] pp. \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eSigned\u003c\/span\u003e on the title-page, two half-titles. Quarter black cloth over blue boards, spine lettered in red, in the original dustjacket; in mylar sleeve with fold adhered to jacket verso, minor stray smudge to front free-endpaper. Near fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST EDITION, association copy, signed by Cooper in presentation to his close friend Ira Silverberg.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eCloser\u003c\/em\u003e was Cooper’s first major novel, preceded by the small-press-published novella \u003cem\u003eSafe\u003c\/em\u003e; he began work on the five volumes that make up the George Miles cycle in the year of \u003cem\u003eSafe\u003c\/em\u003e’s publication. Silverberg was the Director of Publicity at Grove at the time, and would go on to variously be his editor, publisher, and literary agent for over two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first book in the George Miles cycle, only one of two featuring Miles under his own name. An object of desire to all his classmates, the main character is a passive figure who permits his lovers to use and pillage him as they wish. As he is passed among men, he inevitably encounters the limits of psycho-sexual pain. Like the protagonist of “My Mark,” the character of George Miles was based on a person from Cooper’s life of the same name: an acquaintance from his youth who later became his lover. Cooper wrote the novel while living in Amsterdam, running primarily on meth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA legendary novel of the eros of depravity, it has been the subject of critical praise and attention since its publication. A fantastic association and an immaculate copy, marred only by the Brodart sleeve being adhered to the verso of the dustjacket itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePROVENANCE: Ira Silverberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#1090\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heavenacid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639540301908,"sku":"1090","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4811\/9124\/files\/1090.jpg?v=1788787228","url":"https:\/\/heavenacid.com\/products\/cooper-dennis-closer","provider":"Heavenacid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}