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Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs 'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer' Jeanette Winterson. This is the story of Janey, who lived in a l ...Show more
Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Acker, Kathy Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down he life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who i ...Show more
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Great Expectationsis a punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator -familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and crea ...Show more
I'm Very into You - Correspondence 1995--1996 by Kathy Acker
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Semiotext (E)
"Why am I telling you all this? Partly 'cause the whole queerness/identity thing for me stretches through everything, absolutely everything. Slipping between straight/gay is child's play compared to slipping between writer/teacher/influence-peddler whatever. I forget who I am. You reminded me of who I p ...Show more
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning by Kathy Acker; Anja Casser (Editor); Matias Viegener (Editor)
95.00 AUD
Category: Art
An essential compendium on the work, life and legacy of the transgressive autofiction pioneer The American author Kathy Acker was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Working through a tradition spanning Bataille, Burroughs, Schneemann, French critical theory and pornography, she wr ...Show more
Kathy Acker: the Last Interview - And Other Conversations by Kathy Acker; Amy Scholder (Editor); Douglas A. Martin (Editor)
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
From Acker's earliest interviews - filled with playful, evasive, and counter-intuitive responses - to the last interview before her death where she reflects on the state of American literature, these interviews capture the writer at her funny and surprising best. Another highlight includes Acker's 1997 ...Show more
Literal Madness: Three Novels Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida by Kathy Acker
32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, "Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na'veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a ni ...Show more
My Mother: Demonology by Kathy Acker
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In her 10th novel, Acker's heroine, Laurie, is a woman helpless before the fury of her emotions. Love-obsessed, Laurie is plunged into a harrowing dilemma - sexuality and her feminism are the two poles that threaten to obliterate her inner poise, the false magic of her woman's identity.
New York City in 1979 (Mini Modern Classics) by Kathy Acker
2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern 27 | Reading Level: near fine
Intense sexual desire is the greatest thing in the world.' A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker.
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