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Truth Serum

Bernard Cooper

1996225 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1996
first published
  • 1996Houghton Mifflin Co. · 225 pages · ENGISBN 9780395745397
  • 1997Mariner Books · 225 pages · ENGISBN 9780395859940

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.

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