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Truth Serum
Bernard Cooper
其他書名
Memoirs
出版Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresLiterary Collections / GeneralSocial Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Gay Studies
ISBN039574539X9780395745397
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=g3BaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Bernard Cooper's most recent book and first novel, A Year of Rhymes, was compared by critics to Truman Capote's debut forty-five years ago with Other Voices, Other Rooms. Continuing to limn the rough edges of life with luminous prose that Paul Monette has described as "beautiful, astonishing and exquisitely wrought," Cooper offers his most moving and poignant effort yet. In a memoir at once affecting, witty, and dead-on accurate, he gives us the chance to accompany him as he reinvents memory - from Theresa Sanchez, the worldly and sophisticated girl who sat behind him in ninth-grade algebra, to the events surrounding his mother's purchase of a Kenmore freezer, to his experience in 1974 with a psychiatrist who mainlined him with a truth-telling cocktail intended to "reduce the frequency and intensity" of the author's sexual fantasies involving men. Learning to negotiate the emotional territory of his own desire, living with love, loss, and disaffection, calling back with delicacy and su