With an introduction by Lynne Tillman 'The last literary outlaw in mainstream American
fiction' Bret Easton Ellis Physically beautiful and strangely passive George Miles attracts
his fellow students' attention like a wallet lying on the street. One after another his
teenage friends rifle through George ransacking him for love secrets or anything else they
can plausibly extract. Closer follows the subterranean connections that drag George into the
arms of men like John an artist who drains his portraits of humanity in order to find what
lies beneath Alex fascinated by splatter films and pornography and Steve an underground
entrepreneur who turns his parents' garage into a nightclub. Boys and men pass George from
hand to hand fascinated by the nightmarish intensity of his detachment but soon he will be
confronted by desires he may find harder to endure. Closer is an unflinching exploration of
the very limits of experience. Still shocking after more than two decades here is a
provocative classic that assaults the senses as it engages the mind.
