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 locked room, where she found a scrap of paper and began to
write down her life.
It's a story of lust, sex, pain, youth,
punk, anarchy, gangs, the city, feminism, America, Jean Genet and the
prisons we create for ourselves. A heady, surreal mash-up of
coming-of-age tale, prose, poetry, plagiarism and illustration, Kathy
Acker's breakthrough 1984 novel caused huge controversy and made her an
avant-garde literary icon. Published to coincide with the 20th
anniversary of Kathy Acker's untimely death, Blood and Guts in High
School is published for the first time in Penguin Classics,
acknowledging the profound impact she has had on our culture, and
alongside the authors her work pulsates with the influence of: William
S. Burroughs, Cervantes and Charles Dickens, among others.
Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker
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