Truth serum : memoirs / Bernard Cooper.

Author
Cooper, Bernard, 1951- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1996]
  • ©1996
Description
225 pages ; 22 cm

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    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.
    Contents
    • Where to begin
    • 101 ways to cook hamburger
    • Burl's
    • Imitation of life
    • Arson
    • Almost like language
    • Truth serum
    • The fine art of sighing
    • Against gravity
    • Picking plums
    • Train of thought
    • If and when
    • Tone poem.
    ISBN
    • 039574539X
    • 9780395745397
    • 0395859948 ((pbk.))
    • 9780395859940 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    95038984
    OCLC
    33166487
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