Blood And Guts In High School Av Kathy Acker

<p><b>''Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader''s soul'' William S. Burroughs</b><br><br><b>''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</b><br><br>This is the story of Janey, who lived in a locked room, where she found a scrap of paper and began to write down her life. It''s a story of lust, sex, pain, youth, punk, anarchy, gangs, the city, feminism, America, Jean Genet and the prisons we create for ourselves. A heady, surreal mash-up of coming-of-age tale, prose, poetry, plagiarism and illustration, Kathy Acker''s breakthrough 1984 novel caused huge controversy and made her an avant-garde literary icon.<br><br>Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Kathy Acker''s untimely death, <i>Blood and Guts in High School </i>is published for the first time in Penguin Classics, acknowledging the profound impact she has had on our culture,