Jailbait : and other stories /
The ten stories in Brad Gooch's first book of prose are as contemporary as an overheard phone call. Don't expect complicated plots, in-depth conversations, moments of acute psychological analysis. Instead the author gives us a voyeuristic look at some tough people caught in private (slight...
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| Language: | English |
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New York City :
Sea Horse Press,
1984.
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| Summary: | The ten stories in Brad Gooch's first book of prose are as contemporary as an overheard phone call. Don't expect complicated plots, in-depth conversations, moments of acute psychological analysis. Instead the author gives us a voyeuristic look at some tough people caught in private (slightly embarrassing) moments. Seen as if through the windows of an apartment building. Speaking the pared-down dialogue of a TV show or movie. Gooch's style--spare, hesitant, factual, sensual, polished--allows the primitive storytelling back in; we feel the propelling undertow of his characters' desires and impulses. Jailbait and Other Stories is unquestionably a text of an for the Eighties. |
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| Item Description: | "A Dennis Cooper/Sea Horse Press book." Cover photo by Robert Mapplethorpe. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy is signed by the aithor and by Felice Picano. |
| Physical Description: | vi, 167 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0933322178 9780933322172 |