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The stunning conclusion to Dennis Cooper's five-book cycle, Period earned its author the accolade "a disquieting genius" by Vanity Fair and praise for his "elegant prose and literary lawlessness" by The New York Times. The culmination of Cooper's explorations into sex and death, youth culture, and the search for the ineffable object of desire, Period is a breathtaking, mesmerizing final statement to the five-book cycle it completes. Cooper has taken his familiar themes -- strangely irresistible and interchangeable young men, passion that crosses into murder, the lure of drugs, the culpabilities of authorship, and the inexact, haunting communication of feeling-and melded them into a novel of flawless form and immense power. Set in a spare, smoke-and-mirror-filled world of secret Web sites, Goth bands, Satanism, pornography, and outsider art, Period is a literary disappearing act as mysterious as it is logical. Obsessive, beautiful, and darkly comic, Period is a stunning achievement from one of America's finest writers.
“I was obsessed immediately. I’d never seen my own urgent dissociation on the page, or anywhere. Every one of Cooper’s books is a classic, but the depiction of dazed, blunted queerness in the George Miles Cycle – five books, of which Period is the last – made it possible for me to become a person. Cooper’s depiction of deeply inarticulate young people driven by overwhelming needs they could barely express resonated deeply. Still does, if I’m honest. Dennis Cooper saved my life.”—Imogen Binnie, The Guardian