ISBN 0-330-28326-X (UK hbk), 0-330-28186-0 (UK pbk)

"Now for the first time on either side of the Atlantic a major publishing house will be publishing Kathy Acker's most recent work.

"Her novels have been described as everything from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, first person narratives which combine detailed eroticism with detailed politics and what Acker calls 'pop content'. Acker hasn't lacked controversy. She doesn't shy away from what is brutal, violent and ugly. She describes sexual acts graphically, frequently and seldom in the approved 'feminine', 'Romantic' manner. Her narrative is both poetic and powerful -- a montage of conversation, description, conjecture, moments snatched from history and from literature. Short, episodic, outspoken and outrageous, Acker's eerie exposition of antisocial values, her attack on religion, education and government, chart the emergence of the new culture." [publisher's bumpf, UK pbk, ?]

[Blood and Guts in High School ] "Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian Slave Trader came by in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and scrap paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life...

[Great Expectations ] "Great Expectations begins when a young boy, Pip, learns he has come into great expectations. What these expectations actually are, or the change from the total disparity between Pip's ideas of 'expectations' and what is real to Pip's learning to feel, is the narrative of this plagiarized Bildungsroman. This book is totally sensuous.

[My Death, My Life, By Pier Paolo Pasolini ] "The renowned philosopher, poet, cinematographer, painter and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini solves the mystery of his own death." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, ?]