Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker's most notorious work of textual appropriation and literary homage, creating "variations on classic literary texts . . ....

Kathy Acker's characteristically outrageous, lyrical, and hyperinventive novel concerns three characters who share an impulse toward self-immolation through doomed, obsessive romance. Teetering somewhere between the Beats and Punk, IN...

Three early, self-published novels from Kathy Acker reissued with an original introduction by Kate Zambreno, the author of Heroines, Green Girl, Screen Tests, and more. von Acker, Kathy

"Empire of the Senseless: A Novel" von Kathy Acker ist eine dystopische Erzählung, die in einer post-apokalyptischen Welt spielt. Die Hauptfiguren sind Thivai, ein ehemaliger Terrorist und Abhor, eine Cyborg-Piratin. Sie versuchen in...

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...

Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of Acker's writing career. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an...

"Blood and Guts in High School" von Kathy Acker ist ein avantgardistischer Roman, der als scharfe Kritik an gesellschaftlichen Normen und patriarchalen Strukturen fungiert. Die Geschichte folgt Janey Smith, einem rebellischen Teenager,...

Kathy Acker was born in 1947 and was raised in New York City. In her twenties she broke ties with her family and worked as a stripper, while writing and publishing in the underground literary scene. The 1984 publication of Blood and Guts...

Kathy Acker was born in 1948 and was raised in New York. In her twenties she broke ties with her family and worked as a stripper, while writing and publishing with the underground literary scene. She burst into the mainstream with Blood...

A retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a dizzyingly imaginative foray through world history, literature, and language itself. von Acker, Kathy