Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and told through the postings, emails, and conversations of several dozen unreliable narrators

The Sluts chronicles the evolution of one young escort's date with a satisfied client into a meta fiction of pornography, lies, half-truths, and myth. Explicit, shocking, comical, and displaying the author's signature flair for blending structural complexity with direct, stylish, accessible language, The Sluts is Cooper's most transgressive novel since Frisk, and one of his most innovative works of fiction to date.

"A dizzying pileup of bareback breeding, castration procedures, master-slave mind games, boy band necrophilia fantasies, and consensual snuff sex, The Sluts is- - this will sound strange - the most enjoyable of Dennis Copper's novels to date." - The Village Voice

Praise for Dennis Cooper -

"[A] brilliant, triumphantly lurid writer as well as a supremely talented elegant stylist, whose prose is smart and nervy. He might also be the last literary outlaw in mainstream American fiction. Effortlessly entering taboo areas, he lends them a specific gravity, a justification for existing, and does so with such punk daring he makes most writers' concerns seem hopelessly middlebrow and puny by comparison." - Bret Easton Ellis

"In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savour like forbidden absinthe...This is high risk literature." - The New York Times