Blood and Guts in High School - Kathy Acker

'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs 'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso maddening crazy so y 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 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.

TITLE: Blood and Guts in High School

AUTHOR: Kathy Acker

SKU: 9780241302514

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 31/08/2017

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 176

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm

WEIGHT: 134 gr