
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 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. In her twenties she broke ties with her family and worked as a stripper, while writing and publishing with the underground literary scene. BurroughsĪbout the Author: Kathy Acker was born in 1948 and was raised in New York. 'A postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill' William S. 'Acker's most accomplished experimental work' The Village Voice This ribald explosion of literature, sex and violence shows the literary anarchist Kathy Acker at her most brilliant and brave. 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. Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. 'New York City is very peaceful and quiet, and the pale grey mists are slowly rising, to show me the world' Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides.
