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 17
Janey told him she wanted to go out to dinner with him . Johnny replied he
thought she didn ' t . She pleaded that she had been feeling jealous and she didn
' t mean to feel . She promised that she wouldn ' t feel jealous as long as she
knew ...
Janey told him she wanted to go out to dinner with him . Johnny replied he
thought she didn ' t . She pleaded that she had been feeling jealous and she didn
' t mean to feel . She promised that she wouldn ' t feel jealous as long as she
knew ...
Page 65
Every day she stitched . ' Mr Linker had married a young upper - middle class
Viennese girl and brought her to the United States . He bought a resort in the
Catskills , his first resort , and she cooked , cleaned , scrubbed , vacuumed , kept
the ...
Every day she stitched . ' Mr Linker had married a young upper - middle class
Viennese girl and brought her to the United States . He bought a resort in the
Catskills , his first resort , and she cooked , cleaned , scrubbed , vacuumed , kept
the ...
Page 116
After all these fits of anger and jealousy and craving had finished , she died :
between our kisses slipped away that shade of mine . Cancer The Persian slave
trader finally decided Janey was ready to hit the streets . She had demonstrated
that ...
After all these fits of anger and jealousy and craving had finished , she died :
between our kisses slipped away that shade of mine . Cancer The Persian slave
trader finally decided Janey was ready to hit the streets . She had demonstrated
that ...
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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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