"So much of what we know of ourselves is a lousy God Damn lie", maintains the narrator of The Farm (1968), the audacious and supercharged final novel by a writer of both prodigal gifts and tendencies toward self-destruction.
The Farm is a Dante-esque tour of the levels of hell to be found in a federal drug rehabilitation center and a powerful story of love growing in the most unnatural conditions. It is a stylistic tour de force and one of the most honest and unrelenting novels dealing with drug addiction ever written.
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Born in 1934, Clarence Cooper, Jr., published six novels in the course of a troubled life plagued by drug addiction and punctuated by stretches in prison, including The Scene and Black!, both available from Old School Books. He died in New York City in 1979.
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gifted and unrecognized in his lifetime...,
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Sad but true. Cooper was as good as Hemingway or Mailer (or any of those white cats--and this is coming from a white cat), but due to his skin color and the times and what he wrote about the recognition wasn't forthcoming. It's sad. It tears you up inside. He shouldn't have died broke and a failure--because he was not a failure. The man had talent to spare. The writing is not only raw, but it is literature as art. Another overlooked African-American genius. I just don't get it, don't understand it. But why should that surprise me about people? Read Chester Himes' IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO if you want to understand what life was like for certain folks during that time.Read Clarence Cooper, Jr., savor the sentences. He lives for those who appreciate excellent writing.
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