Kathy Acker
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| Original Title: | Blood and Guts in High School |
| ISBN: | 080213193X (ISBN13: 9780802131935) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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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 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). With Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker, whose work has been labeled everything from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, has created a brilliantly subversive narrative built from conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature. ~ groveatlantic.comSpecify Containing Books Blood and Guts in High School
| Title | : | Blood and Guts in High School |
| Author | : | Kathy Acker |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | USA / Canada |
| Pages | : | Pages: 165 pages |
| Published | : | January 11th 1984 by Grove Press (first published 1984) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Feminism. Thriller. Drama. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.39 From 5078 Users | 371 ReviewsJudge Containing Books Blood and Guts in High School
I ran into Acker via these kids I lived next door to when I was about 23. They ate a lot of E and Acid. I was listening a lot of Patti Smith and PJ Harvey at the time and they were like "here, Kathy Acker" and I read it and I really liked it. You can analyze Acker's work all you want. I'm sure it's important/powerful/whatever but if you aren't between the ages of lets say 16 and 23 you might miss out on how much brutal fun this book is.At current, it doesn't rank as something I'd be thatSeriously, what's this supposed to be? I love a good anti-novel as much as the next pretentious hipster, but don't just slap together a bunch of stuff and then bore me to death with it.
I knew I would love this one. It was written in the stars and I could have shelved it as a fave without even reading it. 'Reading' is an inadequate word though: in fact I am utterly unable to think of it as a mere reading experience. Acker's book is indeed a challenge to any attempt to define what a novel is supposed to be, a challenge that sucked me in, deeper and deeper and then higher and higher, from the very first page.Text, illustration, mixed fonts, pages written in the author's weird
This is an amazing book, hyperbolic, mad, outrageous, cynical, expressive, and audacious. Acker has portrayed an odd and often grotesque intersection of nightmare and fantasy in which the worst nightmare often is the realization of fantasy. At the same time she gives very real insight into the mind of a person whose character and vision have been shaped by a life of abuse and exploitation. She doesn't mind being crude and inelegant, and she happily presents a disjointed and often surreal
Here's a polarizing one, huh? I read some Acker in college - you know, back when my hair was purple, my stereo was screaming with angry grrrl singers, and the world was just. not. ready. for. my. brilliance! I liked it then. It felt subversive and important. In fact, it felt a whole lot like all the shit I woke up at 5pm and read that I wrote on a youthful rebellious cocaine binge when I was about 19 years old. Bad words, sex, cunt, piss, shit, run on sentences, angst angst angst. Yeah. I'm 34
If youre going to make a statement, best jump in at the deep end straight away. And so, the first ten pages are a bevy of delights, a veritable cornucopia of plenty, a smorgasbord of every vile, disgusting, grotesque act known to man. Ten year old Janey is being buttfucked by daddy, because her cunt is red raw from VD, probably acquired from when daddys best friend Billy had a go. In between blowing both of them off. The bonus track is a stache of lithographs of daddys pecker, in all manners of
Absolutely the worst book I have ever read, and I've read a lot of books. This was horrid. The only reason I read it was because it's on the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list, and I am now obsessed with reading every book on the list. Up to this point, it hadn't really steered me wrong. That streak has ended. Honestly, I have no problem with vulgar books, and I don't shy away from books with pornographic material. It wasn't the fact that the main character in this novel was sleeping
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