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Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker
$22.99 AUD
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
Bodies Of Work by Kathy Acker
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city, this work reflects and challenges the times in which we live. It offers original views on subjects such as diverse as the films of Peter Greenaway, the paintings of Goya, the writings of Marquis de Sade and copyright in t ...Show more
Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
$22.99 AUD
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
$28.95 AUD
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
Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning by Kathy Acker; Anja Casser (Editor); Matias Viegener (Editor)
$95.00 AUD
Category: Art and Design
An essential compendium on the work, life and legacy of the transgressive autofiction pioneer The American author Kathy Acker was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Working through a tradition spanning Bataille, Burroughs, Schneemann, French critical theory and pornography, she wr ...Show more
New York City in 1979 (Mini Modern Classics) by Kathy Acker
$2.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern 27 | Reading Level: near fine
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.
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