User

Bruce Benderson

User is unmistakably brilliant' Los Angeles Times. 'Impressive, startling and eerie...hypnotically descriptive and powerfully rhythmic' Kirkus. 'User is a stunning novel. I both love and respect it e

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Description

A Queer Classic published in the UK for the first time. A New York City hustler with a special gift for reeling in customers, Apollo, ‘a pale skinned mulatto with a mournful mouth’ strips at a gay sex theatre in Times Square. He is one of the most seductive and disturbing creations in recent American fiction. Unflinchingly describing the lives of hustlers, pimps, drug-addicts and transsexuals in 1990s Times Square, User speaks with the authentic voice of characters from the edge. This is a world filled with stark, hypnotic eroticism and mined with terrors peculiar to the subterranean city in the hours after midnight. A Queer Classic published in the UK and Australia for the first time. By the bestselling author of The Romanian, winner of the Prix de Flores.

Bruce Benderson is a novelist, essayist, journalist and translator who lives in New York. He has taught creative writing, urban culture and French literature at Deep Springs College, Nevada and lectured at Brown, Evergreen and Sarah Lawrence. He is bilingual and his work is hugely popular in France.

Additional information

Imprint

Muswell Press

ISBN

9781739638207

Publication Date

20230605

Height

198

Width

129

Subjects

FICTION / Modern and Contemporary Fiction

Format

Paperback

Author

Pages

228

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