Essential Acker: The Selected Writings Of Kathy Acker [Paperback]

Kathy Acker (Author), Amy Scholder (Editor), Dennis Cooper (Editor)

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC; 1 edition (Oct 1 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802139213
ISBN-13: 978-0802139214
Product Dimensions: 20.9 x 14.1 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 408 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,716,584 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Audacious innovator Acker (1948-97) titled one of her earliest novels Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and her last Pussy, King of the Pirates, and she did indeed raid the vaults of literature like a bisexual bandit in thrift-store drag and on speed, robbing the rich and established to give to the poor and marginalized.Keen-witted, outrageous, disaffected, and whip-smart, she sampled, riffed on, and subverted everything from Don Quixote to Great Expectations to pulp fiction to the life of Toulouse Lautrec, and laced her high-octane assaults on conventional family and social mores and cultural elitism with an explicitly female eroticism that challenges the male domination of porn and often veers into caustic humor and outright existentialism. Torrential yet finely composed, controversial and all too often misread, Acker's work had a profound, if underground, influence on late-twentieth-century literature, theater, and performance art. Essential Acker recognizes and highlights Acker's galvanizing fiction in a vital and tantalizing montage of excerpts from 19 of her rampaging novels, which Jeanette Winterson, no slouch herself, describes in her resounding introduction as "rigorous and playful, sexy and repelling, inventive and proverbial." Donna Seaman
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