Blood and Guts in High School: A Novel“Kathy Acker’s writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer.” —Jeanette Winterson, New York Times–bestselling author A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School is the book that established Kathy Acker as the preeminent voice of post-punk feminism. With 2017 marking the 70th anniversary of her birth, as well as the 10th year since her death this transgressive work of philosophical, political, and sexual insight—with a new introduction by Chris Kraus—continues to become more relevant than ever before. In the Mexican city of Merida, ten-year-old Janey lives with Johnny—her “boyfriend, brother, sister, money, amusement, and father” —until he leaves her for another woman. Bereft, Janey travels to New York City, plunging into an underworld of gangs and prostitution. After escaping imprisonment, she flees to Tangiers where she meets Jean Genet, and they begin a torrid affair that will lead Janey to her demise. Fantastical, sensual, and fearlessly radical, this hallucinatory collage is both a comic and tragic portrait of erotic awakening. “The girl in this story had more agency and voice than any girl I’d ever read or would read in my entire life.” —Lydia Yuknavitch, national bestselling author of Thrust “No writer I know is more audacious than Kathy Acker, whose anarchic wit drives a thoroughgoing attack on conventions and complacencies of all sorts. Not unlike Gertrude Stein in her day, Acker gives us a different way to look at the uses to which language is put.” —Lynne Tillman, author of Men and Apparitions |
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... knew the cast of characters . Her compositional strategies were grounded in the phenomenological experiments of the old - guard minimalist and conceptual artists , but the content of her work - extreme pornography , diatribe , parody ...
... knew the cast of characters . Her compositional strategies were grounded in the phenomenological experiments of the old - guard minimalist and conceptual artists , but the content of her work - extreme pornography , diatribe , parody ...
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... knew her father and that woman were going to fuck . Janey was also very pretty , but she was kind of weird - looking because one of her eyes was lopsided . Janey tore up her father's bed and shoved boards against the front door . When ...
... knew her father and that woman were going to fuck . Janey was also very pretty , but she was kind of weird - looking because one of her eyes was lopsided . Janey tore up her father's bed and shoved boards against the front door . When ...
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... knew . Don't you understand ? Father ( silent ) . Janey : I just can't bear that you're leaving me : it's like a lance cutting my brain in two : it's the worst pain I've ever known . I don't care who you fuck . You know that . I've ...
... knew . Don't you understand ? Father ( silent ) . Janey : I just can't bear that you're leaving me : it's like a lance cutting my brain in two : it's the worst pain I've ever known . I don't care who you fuck . You know that . I've ...
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... knew he'd tell her what was happening with Johnny , if Johnny was crazy or not , and if Johnny really wanted to break up with Janey . Janey didn't have to pretend anything with Bill . Janey : Right now we're at the edge of a.
... knew he'd tell her what was happening with Johnny , if Johnny was crazy or not , and if Johnny really wanted to break up with Janey . Janey didn't have to pretend anything with Bill . Janey : Right now we're at the edge of a.
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... knew . It was always me , my voice , I felt like a total nag ; I want you to be the man . I can't make all the decisions . I'm going to the United States for a long time so you'll be able to be alone . Father ( amazed she's snapped so ...
... knew . It was always me , my voice , I felt like a total nag ; I want you to be the man . I can't make all the decisions . I'm going to the United States for a long time so you'll be able to be alone . Father ( amazed she's snapped so ...
Contents
The Scorpions | |
Outside high school | |
The mysterious Mr Linker | |
Translating | |
A journey to the end of the night | |
In Egypt the | |
A second of time | |
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