Great expectations
Acker, Kathy, 1948-19972018
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Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art. Great Expectations is a punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator -familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and creativity, social unrest, feminism, porn and sadism. She/he becomes a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw. Kathy Acker is a literary anarchist and here she is at the very top of her riotous game.
Main title:
Great expectations / Kathy Acker.
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Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Books, 2018.©1982
Collation:
124 pages ; 20 cm.
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First published: 1982.
ISBN:
9780241352144 (pbk)9780241352144 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.54
Language:
English
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BRN:
618824
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