Try - Softcover

?In his latest novel, Try, Cooper seems to be moving away from a pervasive morbidity toards a gentler maturity...To use Cooper?s own Californian demotic, his achievement is, like...you know...totally awesome.

Guardian ?The last word on the dsyfunctional family... slacker hell, and not for the faint-hearted? Attitude ?This is high-risk literature. It takes enormous courage for a writer to explore, as Mr. Cooper does, the extreme boundaries of human behavior and amorality, right to the abyss where desire and lust topple into death (New York Times Book Review)

Ziggy is the adopted teenage son of two sexually abusive fathers, whose failed experiment at nuclear family living has left him stranded with one and increasingly present in the fantasies of the other. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a drug addict whose own vulnerability inspires in him a fierce and awkward devotion. In Try, his most ambitious fiction to date, Dennis Cooper continues his investigation of frailties and excesses of human existence.