'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 literature, sex and violence shows the literary anarchist Kathy Acker at her most brilliant and brave.
'Acker's most accomplished experimental work' The Village Voice
'A postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill' William S. Burroughs
| ISBN: | 9780241352144 |
| Publication date: | 5th July 2018 |
| Author: | Kathy Acker, Charles Dickens |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
'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.
Great Expectations features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
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Great Expectations was written by Kathy Acker, Charles Dickens and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
Great Expectations has 208 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Modern Classics series
£8.99, reduced from £9.99. In Stock.