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A masterpiece of surrealist fiction, steeped in controversy upon its first publication in 1984, Blood and Guts in Excessive College is the ebook that established Kathy Acker because the preeminent voice of post-punk feminism. With 2017 marking the seventieth anniversary of her start, in addition to the tenth yr since her demise this transgressive work of philosophical, political, and sexual perception―with a brand new introduction by Chris Kraus―continues to change into extra related than ever earlier than.
Within the Mexican metropolis of Merida, ten-year-old Janey lives with Johnny―her “boyfriend, brother, sister, money, amusement, and father”―till he leaves her for one more lady. Bereft, Janey travels to New York Metropolis, plunging into an underworld of gangs and prostitution. After escaping imprisonment, she flees to Tangiers the place she meets Jean Genet, and so they start a torrid affair that may lead Janey to her demise. Fantastical, sensual, and fearlessly radical, this hallucinatory collage is each a comic book and tragic portrait of erotic awakening.
