Truth Serum by Bernard Cooper 1996, Hardcover: items on eBay.com

Publisher's Note
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.

Industry Reviews
"Bernard Cooper injects his memoirs with pain and humor and gets to the heart of who we are and what tampers with our psyches. Cooper is a master of the language of memory and truth."
Publisher's Catalog - Amy Tan

"[T]he brilliant and beautifully written 'Truth Serum', a collection of memoirs so ripe with detail and meaning that they seem to swell from the page. This book...confirms [Bernard Cooper] as one of America's most gifted and essential voices, a writer of both soul and skill....[A] gush of memories, details, and feelings, so exquisitely rendered you cannot help but glimpse your own life in the roiling waters."
Philadelphia Inquirer - Anndee Hochman (06/16/1996)

"The book is part Bildungsroman, part AIDS memoir. It's an odd combination, but one that works well, for Cooper has found a voice that's neither mushy nor blunt, a way of speaking that conveys both wit and pain."
Nation - David L. Kirp (07/22/1996)

"Each of Cooper's 13 essays is as finely crafted and polished as the best fiction; images and metaphors and ideas return and illuminate his characters and episodes....Nothing Cooper has written before has resonated with such intimate disclosure as 'Truth Serum'. It is entertaining; it is poignant."
Washington Post Book World - Jameson Currier (06/09/1996)

"Thankfully, 'Truth Serum' reinvigorates the gay memoir. In part another coming out tale, it is also much more than that, and it sidesteps all the lazy cliches that have started to plague so many queer life stories."
Lambda Book Report - Rapahel Kadushin (07/19/1996)

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