{"product_id":"great-expectations-reissue-paperback","title":"Great Expectations (Reissue) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathy Acker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKathy Acker's practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious--as a rebel and a groundbreaker--when \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens's classic--splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat's sexually violent \u003ci\u003eEden, Eden, Eden\u003c\/i\u003e, among other texts--alongside Acker's trademark pithy dialogue, as well as prank missives to the likes of Susan Sontag, Sylv re Lotringer, and God. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of this form-shifting narrative, Acker's protagonist collects an inheritance following her mother's suicide, which compels her to revisit and reinterpret traumatic scenes from the past. Switching perspectives, identities, genders, and centuries, the speaker lustily ransacks world literature to celebrate and challenge the discourse around art, love, life, and death.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathy Acker\u003c\/b\u003e (1948 - 1997) was an influential postmodernist writer and performance artist, whose many books include \u003ci\u003eBlood and Guts in High School; Don Quixote; Literal Madness; Empire of the Senseless; In Memoriam to Identity; My Mother: Demonology; Pussy, King of the Pirates; Portrait of an Eye;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRip-Off Red, Girl Detective\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47228835463417,"sku":"9780802128546","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/WW9ReTMwMjRMQjZ5WWxVK2dncXFpZz09.webp?v=1768296426","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/great-expectations-reissue-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}