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Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker's Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era's cherished beliefs about life and art.
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Acker's most accomplished experimental work... As she says in Great Expectations, 'A narrative is an emotional moving.' It should be, but she's one of the few people writing today who manage to blend that kind of warmth, gutsiness, and skill. (Sally O’Driscoll The Village Voice)
Acker's most ambitious, most exciting and masterful novel to date... The novel is as revolutionary in form as it is in content. (Steve Abbot Poetry Flash)
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Acker's most ambitious, most exciting and masterful novel to date... The novel is as revolutionary in form as it is in content. (Steve Abbot Poetry Flash)
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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- PublisherGrove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0802131557
- ISBN 13 9780802131553
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- Number of pages127
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