New York City in 1979
$7.08
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2018
Summary
Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘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
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241338896 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241338891 |
| Author: | Kathy Acker |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 46g |
| Dimensions: | 161mm x 111mm x 6mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern |
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About The Author
Kathy Acker
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 and Guts in High School, which caused a sensation upon publication in 1987 - the book was banned in several countries. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, she abandoned Western medicine after a traumatic experience of surgery to treat the cancer, which was unsuccessful. She died in an alternative treatment centre in Tijuana, Mexico in 1997. Her major novels include Blood and Guts in High School, Great Expectations, Don Quixote and Pussy, King of the Pirates. A collection of her emails with McKenzie Wark was published in 2015, titled I’m Very into You.
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