Great Expectations by Kathy Acker
'New York City is very peaceful and quiet, and the pale grey mists are slowly rising, to show me the world'
Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; becoming, by turns, a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw, through adventures incorporating desire, creativity, porn, sadism and art. This ribald explosion of literature, sex and violence shows the literary anarchist Kathy Acker at her most brilliant and brave.
'Acker's most accomplished experimental work' The Village Voice
'A postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill' William S. Burroughs
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Of Mice and Men
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The Great Gatsby
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East of Eden
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A Month in the Country
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Giovanni's Room
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In Cold Blood
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Animal Farm
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
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Alone in Berlin
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Man in the High Castle
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On the Road
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Lolita
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Brideshead Revisited
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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A Clockwork Orange
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Orientalism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Ways of Seeing
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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The Crucible
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Tokyo Express
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Death of a Salesman
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The Wretched of the Earth
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Things Fall Apart
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The Lonely Londoners
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Dubliners
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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The Night Manager
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Caliban and the Witch
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Mrs Dalloway
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Homage to Catalonia
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Ulysses
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The Go-between
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Blood and Guts in High School
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New York City in 1979
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Blood and Guts in High School Plus Two
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I'm Very into You
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Essential Acker
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Hannibal Lecter, My Father
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Empire of the Senseless
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Bodies of Work
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Portrait of an Eye
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Young Lust
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Pussy King of the Pirates (Reissue)
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Spread Wide
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Algeria
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Kathy Acker: The Last Interview
Acker's most ambitious, most exciting and masterful novel to date... The novel is as revolutionary in form as it is in content. -- Steve Abbot * Poetry Flash *
Kathy Acker was born in 1948 and was raised in New York. In her twenties she broke ties with her family and worked as a stripper, while writing and publishing with the underground literary scene. She burst into the mainstream with Blood and Guts in High School, which caused a sensation upon publication in 1987 - the book was banned in several countries. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1996, she abandoned Western medicine after a traumatic experience of surgery to treat the cancer, which was unsuccessful. She died in an alternative treatment centre in Tijuana, Mexico in 1997.
Her major novels include Blood and Guts in High School, Great Expectations, Don Quixote and Pussy, King of the Pirates. A collection of her emails with McKenzie Wark was published in 2015, titled I'm Very into You.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241352144 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241352142 |
| Title | Great Expectations |
| Author | Kathy Acker |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2018-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |