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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Page 56
Many of the people who live in these neighbourhoods are too poor to pay their
rents . One of the landlords burned down his building so he could collect the
insurance money . Two families and one pimp were sleeping in this building
when it ...
Many of the people who live in these neighbourhoods are too poor to pay their
rents . One of the landlords burned down his building so he could collect the
insurance money . Two families and one pimp were sleeping in this building
when it ...
Page 57
Whenever there ' s a holiday , for instance , when Con Ed breaks down or when a
landlord burns down one of his buildings to collect the insurance money , the
poor people loot this hospital to amuse themselves . The only supermarket in this
...
Whenever there ' s a holiday , for instance , when Con Ed breaks down or when a
landlord burns down one of his buildings to collect the insurance money , the
poor people loot this hospital to amuse themselves . The only supermarket in this
...
Page 128
The skeleton official is cursing at the poor people and pushing them into lines .
Bit by bit the poor people go away . I don ' t know how I ' m going to get a passport
. The skeleton government official is still cursing the poor people , those shuffling
...
The skeleton official is cursing at the poor people and pushing them into lines .
Bit by bit the poor people go away . I don ' t know how I ' m going to get a passport
. The skeleton government official is still cursing the poor people , those shuffling
...
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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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