Filters
-
Theme
-
Product form
-
Language
-
Price
Results for 'kathy acker'
-
New York City in 1979
Kathy Acker was born in 1948 and was raised in New York. In her twenties she broke ties with her family and worked as a stripper, while writing and publishing with the underground literary scene. 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. 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 died in an alternative treatment centre in Tijuana, Mexico in 1997.Her major novels include Blood and Guts in High School, Great Expectations, Don Quixote and Pussy, King of the Pirates. A collection of her emails with McKenzie Wark was published in 2015, titled I'm Very into You.
€ 5,50 -
Blood and Guts in High School
Acker is a postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill
€ 14,95 -
Girls Against God
A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto from the author of the acclaimed Paradise Rot
€ 16,50 -
My Lover, the Rabbi
Like Ingeborg Bachman's Malina, My Lover, the Rabbi circles and penetrates the outer edges of perception and experience. It's a brilliant book, written with manic zeal and cool strategy
€ 20,95 -
Companion piece
The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of How to be bothSuperb, radical, remarkable
€ 13,95 -
The Breakthrough
Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907 and died in 1989. Her many successful novels include Frenchman's Creek, My Cousin Rachel and Rebecca, famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940.
€ 5,50 -
Paradise Rot
A NovelThe instant cult classic from the incomparable Jenny Hval
€ 13,95 -
Dysphoria Mundi
A revolutionary book tracing the collapse of the paradigms that have organized the world for a millenium.
€ 23,50 -
The History of My Sexuality
A sensation in Europe on publication: an effervescent account of life as a twenty-something in Amsterdam that charts the freedoms and complications of coming out and going it alone.
€ 17,95 -
I Fear My Pain Interests You
A NovelA stylish and raw exploration of bodies, trauma and 1960s cinema
€ 13,95 -
Great Expectations
Acker's most accomplished experimental work... As she says in Great Expectations, 'A narrative is an emotional moving.' It should be, but she's one of the few people writing today who manage to blend that kind of warmth, gutsiness, and skill.
€ 13,95 -
Die Stadt, die sie schrieben
New York City ist die literarische Sehnsuchtsstadt schlechthin. War einst Manhattan das kulturelle Zentrum der Welt, hat heute vor allem Brooklyn diese Rolle inne. Jedes Jahr erscheinen Dutzende Romane, die nicht nur in New York City spielen, sondern die Stadt als integralen Bestandteil erzählen und sie so zu einem eigenständigen Charakter machen."Die Stadt, die sie schrieben" versammelt einige der wichtigsten Autorinnen, die die Stadt als ihren Lebensmittelpunkt hatten, sich in ihrer Literatur ausführlich mit ihr beschäftigten und das Bild von New York City prägten. Darunter finden sich prominente Namen wie Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton und Siri Hustvedt, aber auch viele Entdeckungen: Emma Lazarus, deren Worte im Sockel der Freiheitsstatue zu finden sind, Kathy Acker, die die Undergroundliteratur revolutionierte, Ann Petry, die erste Schwarze Autorin, die eine Million Bücher verkaufte, Nellie Bly, die bereits im 19. Jahrhundert als Undercover-Reporterin arbeitete, Leslie Feinberg mit deren queerem Klassiker Stone Butch Blues oder Daphne Palasi Andreades, die jüngst den Bezirk Queens auf die literarische Stadtkarte brachte - sie alle zeigen die Vielfalt der New Yorker Literatur.
€ 20,00