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Great Expectations

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Great Expectations

By Kathy Acker

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About the book

'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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780241352144

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Great Expectations

Format

Paperback

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