Truth Serum
Bernard Cooper. Mariner Books, $11 (225pp) ISBN 978-0-395-85994-0
The novelist and essayist's highly praised memoir of adolescence and gay awakening in 1960s' L.A. (June)
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Reviewed on: 06/02/1997
Genre: Nonfiction
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