num_pages: 192
description: Chris is a young porn star who wants to experience death at someone else's hand; Mason has lurid fantasies about members of British pop bands; Sniffles is a teenage runaway whose need for love outweighs his attachment to life. Courtesy of a frankly manipulative author/narrator named Dennis, these characters and more move through a subterranean Los Angeles where hallucination and reality, sex and suicide, love and indifference run together in terrifying ways. Guide, the fourth novel in a projected five-book cycle, continues to explore the boundaries of experience in the manner that has earned Dennis Cooper comparisons to Poe, Genet, and Baudelaire.
language: English
title: Guide
titlecomplete: Guide
genres: Dark, American, Death, LGBT, Novels, Gay, Queer, Horror, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 855
series: George Miles Cycle
publisher: Grove Press