The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Stories
7 best books like The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things: Stories (J.T. LeRoy): Mysterious Skin, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland, Frisk, Night's Lies, Try, Period, Lynch on Lynch
| Author | Scott Heim |
| ISBN | 0060841699 |
At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time.
During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough...
| Author | James St. James |
| ISBN | 0743259823 |
Murder Was Never So Much Fun! When Disco Bloodbath was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world of the New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré -- including murder. Nominated...
| Author | Dennis Cooper |
| ISBN | 2867449235 |
Cooper says, "I present the actual act of evil so it's visible and give it a bunch of facets so that you can actually look at it and experience it. You're seduced into dealing with it. ... So with Frisk, whatever pleasure you got out of making a picture in your mind based on ... those people being murdered,...
| Author | Gesualdo Bufalino |
| ISBN | 1860461107 |
Gesualdo Bufalino was Sicilian like other favorites of mine: Leonardo Sciascia and Giovanni Verga. Night’s Lies takes Boccaccio’s Decameron as a model. But instead of young aristocrats escaping the Black Death in the convenient quarantine of a country estate outside Florence, the narrators...
Ziggy is the adopted teenaged son of two sexually abusive fathers, from whose obsessive attentions he flees into the weird world of his uncle, an amoral man who makes violent pornography. As scenes of fierce sex and sadistic oppression take place around him, Ziggy falls improbably in love -- with his...
| Author | Dennis Cooper |
| ISBN | 0802137830 |
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,...
| Author | David Lynch |
| ISBN | 0571220185 |
David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in contemporary cinema. Over the course of his career, he has remained true to a vision of the innocent lost in darkness and confusion, balancing...
