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Great Expectations

Paperback • 2019 • English

Great Expectations

By Kathy Acker

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About the book

Kathy Acker's practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious--as a rebel and a groundbreaker--when Great Expectations was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens's classic--splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat's sexually violent Eden, Eden, Eden, among other texts--alongside Acker's trademark pithy dialogue, as well as prank missives to the likes of Susan Sontag, Sylvère Lotringer, and God. At the center of this form-shifting narrative, Ac...Show more

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ISBN

9780802128546

Publisher

Grove Press

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

Great Expectations

Format

Paperback

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