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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All night he had been wandering in the falling snow looking for food . The falling
snow had obscured the ice that hid the frozen fish . Falling snow had obscured
the world . The bear saw the beaver ' s and the monster ' s hut . When he lifted his
...
All night he had been wandering in the falling snow looking for food . The falling
snow had obscured the ice that hid the frozen fish . Falling snow had obscured
the world . The bear saw the beaver ' s and the monster ' s hut . When he lifted his
...
Page 60
She looked up at the black guy with tears in her eyes and smiled . ' OK , ' said the
black guy . ' Let ' s go . ' They threw some clothes on her and carried her
downstairs . When she had been a tiny child , the night after a tonsillitis operation
, in ...
She looked up at the black guy with tears in her eyes and smiled . ' OK , ' said the
black guy . ' Let ' s go . ' They threw some clothes on her and carried her
downstairs . When she had been a tiny child , the night after a tonsillitis operation
, in ...
Page 96
The night is red . ' ' The night is red . ' ' The streets are deserted . ' reets ' The
streets are deserted . ... The night is all around me and it ' s black . ' ' The streets
are deserted . ' ' I can ' t even see the streets from my room : how would I know if ...
The night is red . ' ' The night is red . ' ' The streets are deserted . ' reets ' The
streets are deserted . ... The night is all around me and it ' s black . ' ' The streets
are deserted . ' ' I can ' t even see the streets from my room : how would I know if ...
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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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