Published by Grove Press, 1994
ISBN 10: 080213193X ISBN 13: 9780802131935
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st Evergreen Ed. Kathy Acker was a high-wire writer. She took risks. She experimented for the sake of it. She made mistakes. She fell. She never wanted a modest success, and so her books, all of them, swing from passages of topflight bravura, where you think, "How did she do that?" to a sawdust-in-your-mouth kind of feeling that you just want to spit out. She is an exhilarating, exasperating writer who wants you in the ring with her, through the highs and the lows. There was always something touching and trusting about Acker's belief that her audience would not want a smooth finished product of the kind they could buy at any dime store, but would prefer to be in on the process -- flying when she did, falling when she did, nothing leveled out or homogenized.She was ahead of her time. There is no doubt about that. Acker really was interactive art. It's why she fronted bands -- most famously The Mekons on the CD of Pussy, King of the Pirates -- if you haven't heard it, buy it now. It's why her readings were more like stage shows than those creepy literary events where some dude mumbles in a monotone for half an hour. To see Kathy in her leopard-skin leotard, slash of red lipstick, gym-honed muscles, maybe a dildo, usually a backing track, seduce a packed crowd with that gorgeous voice and knowing childlike look was to discover how exciting art could be. Not rarefied, not back-dated, not dull, just something you suddenly wanted -- the way you suddenly want to be kissed by someone you hadn't even looked at before.Okay, so Acker was art as performance and language as desire, but was she an important writer? Yes. Important work always has risk in it. That doesn't mean that all risky work is important,but it does mean that safety gets us nowhere. In science this is self-evident. In the arts, and particularly literature, we still moan and groan at experiment. Just gimme a good story, we say, with a beginning, middle, and end. Well, Acker won't do that for you, but she will help you get high.
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Published by Penguin, 2017
ISBN 10: 024130251X ISBN 13: 9780241302514
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Grove Press, 2017
ISBN 10: 0802127622 ISBN 13: 9780802127624
Seller: Lakeside Books, Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books!.
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Published by Picador, 1984
ISBN 10: 0330281860 ISBN 13: 9780330281867
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First U.K. paperback issue in the 2nd impression with only the number 1 removed in the number string. This issue incorporates 'Blood and Guts in High School'. Great Expectations' and 'My Death, My Life, By Paolo Pasolini'. Names scribbled out to the ear of the cover otherwise a firm, clean copy.
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Published by Anagrama, Barcelona, 2019
ISBN 10: 8433980475 ISBN 13: 9788433980472
Seller: La Librería, Iberoamerikan. Buchhandlung, Bonn, NRW, Germany
Softcover. 1a. ed. 140x220 mm. Panorama de Narrativas 1.012. 200 p. Softcover. Rústica con solapas. Sprache: Spanisch, Ilustraciones b/n. Con prólogo de Eloy Fernández Porta. Cuando apareció en los setenta, se dijo de Kathy Acker que era la sucesora de Henry Miller, la primera pornógrafa feminista y la Patti Smith de la literatura pospunk. Sus libros fueron considerados «obscenos», «perturbadores» e «iconoclastas». Aborto en la escuela (1984) es su obra definitiva, la novela que acabó de encumbrarla. Janey, su protagonista, se va de casa porque su padre que también es su amante se ha liado con otra mujer, y emprende un largo viaje hacia el fin de la noche narrado mediante todo tipo de recursos: «cut-ups» a o Burroughs, reescrituras y parodias de otros escritores (Hawthorne y Sade, Shakespeare y Emily Brontë), dibujos (¿obscenos?, ¿pornográficos?) y poemas, así como las más vitriólicas diatribas contra la religión, el gobierno y el lenguaje de los biempensantes, tejen la trama de este libro caleidoscópico, especie de mil y una noches de pesadilla, soñadas en los bajos fondos de Tánger y Nueva York. Libro pionero y de culto, clásico moderno del feminismo rock que anticipó múltiples preocupaciones rabiosamente actuales. [Literatura norteamericana]. ** 10% DESCUENTO/RABATT/DISCOUNT PRIMAVERA * 20,70 (reduced from 23,00) **.
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Published by Grove Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0394623347 ISBN 13: 9780394623344
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Publisher: Grove Press/Evergreen, NY., 1984. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE softcover book in pictorial/illustrated wraps, as issued. Coffee splash stain on bottom edge of page block. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy.
Published by Picador, London, UK, 1984
Seller: Taipan Books, Inglewood, WA, Australia
B-format paperback (20 X 13 cm. Condition: Very Good. 412pp. Reprint. Pages are age-tanned. Light wear. The spine is uncreased and the binding is firm.
Published by London Picador (= Picador Books / Pan Books), 1984,, 1984
ISBN 10: 0330281860 ISBN 13: 9780330281867
Seller: Antiquariat Orban & Streu GbR, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
First Edition
3. impr., 8°, 412 S., Text: englisch, illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), Rücken mit Fältchen, Papier ein wenig nachgedunkelt, sonst ein gutes, sauberes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch.
Published by Grove Press / Evergreen, New York, 1989
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Second Evergreen Edition. Octavo (23.25cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; [ii],[6],7-165,[7]pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine. A sharp copy of Acker's best-known novel, written in the 1970's, and first published by Pan Books in London in 1984.
Published by Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1989
ISBN 10: 080213193X ISBN 13: 9780802131935
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989. Octavo. Softcover. Third printing of the 1989 Evergreen edition. Inscribed by Acker on the first free end paper. Modest creasing to the front cover. Very good. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Picador, London, 1984
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. 412pp; Edges sunned throughout and in a worn unclipped d/w with some shelf wear and small closed tears to edges of d/w in protecive sleeving; First hardcover edition of this book originally published in the United States as a softcover original. Also includes the novella's 'Great Expectations' and 'My Death, My Life', by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Size: 12mo. Book.