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Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
$26.00 NZD
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
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
$26.00 NZD
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
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Pussy King of the Pirates (Reissue) by Kathy Acker
$34.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson's classicTreasure Island,Pussy, King of the Pirates is a grrrl pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria though an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future, to Brighton Town, England, and, finally, ...Show more
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