Blood and Guts in High School"Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and a scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with 'Parents stink.' Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her ... post-punk porn to post-punk feminism ... detailed eroticism with detailed politics and ... 'pop content'--a montage of conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature"--Page 4 of cover. |
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needed to be alone and to decide by himself what he wanted . In a little over
twenty - four hours I would be going to the United States . I would not see or
speak to him again , unless he asked me to see or speak to him . Father : I have
to get out ...
needed to be alone and to decide by himself what he wanted . In a little over
twenty - four hours I would be going to the United States . I would not see or
speak to him again , unless he asked me to see or speak to him . Father : I have
to get out ...
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the hippy asked the Lousy Mindless Salesgirl while the latter was desperately
trying to read just one page . “ Why shouldn ' t I smile ? ' ' You don ' t really like
everyone , do you ? You shouldn ' t act nice if you don ' t feel like it . ' ' How should
I ...
the hippy asked the Lousy Mindless Salesgirl while the latter was desperately
trying to read just one page . “ Why shouldn ' t I smile ? ' ' You don ' t really like
everyone , do you ? You shouldn ' t act nice if you don ' t feel like it . ' ' How should
I ...
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Now that Janey has a boyfriend , Janey knows too many people these people are
too many because she has to talk to them because of her boyfriend . ' Each
person is an asking , a peculiar kind of hole asking some very definite energy
from ...
Now that Janey has a boyfriend , Janey knows too many people these people are
too many because she has to talk to them because of her boyfriend . ' Each
person is an asking , a peculiar kind of hole asking some very definite energy
from ...
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Contents
Inside high school | 7 |
Outside high school | 44 |
Janey becomes a woman | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Blood and Guts in High School An Evergreen book |
| Author | Kathy Acker |
| Publisher | Grove Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802130755, 9780802130754 |
| Length | 165 pages |
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