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The Sluts - Epistolary Novel
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The Sluts

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The Sluts is a 2004 novel by American writer Dennis Cooper, constructed from fictional online reviews, message-board posts, emails, and other digital exchanges. Its shifting accounts concern a male escort and the users who discuss, desire, investigate, and mythologize him, leaving the reliability of both identities and events uncertain. The book uses an epistolary internet format to examine anonymity, obsession, sexual violence, exploitation, and the unstable boundary between testimony and fabrication.

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When was Dennis Cooper’s The Sluts published?

The Sluts was published in 2004. It is an experimental novel by American writer Dennis Cooper.

How is The Sluts written?

The novel is assembled from fictional online reviews, message-board posts, emails, and other digital exchanges. This fragmented form makes the story emerge through conflicting accounts rather than a single narrator.

What is The Sluts about?

The plot revolves around a male escort and the people who discuss, desire, investigate, and mythologize him online. Their competing versions of events make identity and truth central to the book.

Is The Sluts a conventional crime or romance novel?

No, it uses an epistolary and digital-document structure instead of a conventional linear narrative. Its subject matter is disturbing and sexually explicit, and its mystery is built from unreliable online testimony.

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