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Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul'
William S.
Burroughs, Cervantes and Charles Dickens, among others..
Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Kathy Acker's untimely death, Blood and Guts in High School is published for the first time in Penguin Classics, acknowledging the profound impact she has had on our culture, and alongside the authors her work pulsates with the influence of: William S.
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.
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.
Acker is a landmark writer'
Jeanette Winterson 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.
Burroughs '
Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. '
Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul'
William S
