Mountainhead Juche NewPaperback

From the book: "The reader may be disgusted by my behaviour and its rubric, and feel that I am defiling the mountain like a piece of grit in your eye. The mountain dictates my behaviour as the soil does a worm's. But I belong now in this place, I'm attached to it.

What I'm doing here is valid and harmonious."Dennis Cooper has described New Juche as "one of the most inspiring, original and groundbreaking artists working today," and Mountainhead is arguably the elusive writer/photographer's most accomplished work to date. Can you understand that? Within the structure of a sexually charged exotic travelogue, we discover prose that is at once repulsive, lyrical, and deeply sensual; that is anchored by a raconteur's instinct for gritty storytelling, yet punctuated by liminal flights of feverish imagination.

Mountainhead deftly interlaces personal confession