Kathy Acker
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Kathy Acker: Get Rid of Meaning
$45.00 Read moreAn 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 throug
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 3753301183
- Language: English
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Literal Madness: Three Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida
$17.00 Read moreKathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na’vet that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politi
- Series: Acker, Kathy
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0802131565
- Language: English
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Great Expectations (Reissue)
$18.00 Add to cartKathy Acker’s practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious–as a rebel and a groundbreaker–when Great Expectations was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charle… [more below]
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 802128548
- Language: English
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The Portrait of an Eye
$17.00 Read more“Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other I know.” –New York Times Book Review
The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula, Kathy Acker’s debut and
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0802157564
- Language: English
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Don Quixote, Which Was a Dream
$16.00 Add to cartKathy Acker’s Don Quixote is an indomitable woman on a formidable quest: to become a knight and defeat the evil enchanters of modern America by pursuing “the most insane idea that any woman can think
- Series: Acker, Kathy
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 18 1994
- ISBN10: 0802131921
- Language: English
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In Memoriam to Identity
$16.00 Add to cartIn this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rim… [more below]
- Series: Acker, Kathy
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 1998
- ISBN10: 080213579X
- Language: English
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Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker
$17.00 Add to cartKathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America’s preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics. Now Amy Scholder and Dennis Cooper hav… [more below]
- Series: Acker, Kathy
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 12 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139213
- Language: English
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Empire of the Senseless
$18.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1988, Empire of the Senseless marked a turning point in Acker’s wild, inimitable style. Considered one of her more accessible works, here Acker candidly addresses her lifelong
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15, 2018
- ISBN10: 0802128351
- Language: English
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I’m Very Into You: Correspondence 1995-1996
$14.95 Add to cartThe tempestuous email correspondence between Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, shimmering with insight, gossip, sex, and cultural commentary.
“Why am I telling you all this? Partly ’cause the whole queern
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1584351640
- Language: English
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My Mother: Demonology
$18.00 Add to cartBased loosely on the relationship between Colette Peignot and Georges Bataille, My Mother: Demonology is the powerful story of a woman’s struggle with the contradictory impulses for love and solitude…. [more below]
- Series: Acker, Kathy
- Author: Acker, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: September 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0802134033
- Language: English
