Great Expectations
Author(s): Kathy Acker
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 creativity, social unrest, feminism, porn and sadism. She/he becomes a sailor, a pirate, a rebeland an outlaw. Kathy Acker is a literary anarchist and here she is at the very top of her riotous game.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.112
- : 1 Centimeters X 13 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
- : 01 July 2018
- : books
Special Fields
- : 208
- : 813/.54
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Kathy Acker