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Great expectations

Kathy Acker
ID 394878
Slug great-expectations-kathy-acker
Contributors
Author : Kathy Acker
Annotation
Description <p>Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original&nbsp;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.</p>
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300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
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Publisher PENGUIN GROUP
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 144
Duration
Publication date first 2018-07-05
Publication date latest 2018-07-05
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Editions
  • ISBN: 9780241352144 (BC)

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