Truth Serum

by Cooper, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780395745397
• ISBN10: 039574539X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Where to Begin	p. 1
101 Ways to Cook Hamburger	p. 3
Burl's	p. 15
Imitation of Life	p. 28
Arson	p. 64
Almost Like Language	p. 81
Truth Serum	p. 97
The Fine Art of Sighing	p. 111
Against Gravity	p. 114
Picking Plums	p. 162
Train of Thought	p. 177
If and When	p. 180
Tone Poem	p. 223
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