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Title: Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker ISBN: 080213193X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83
Rating: 1
Summary: This is not a book to be set aside lightly.
Comment: Instead, it should be flung to the ground with great force. Acker is nothing more than a paedophile, a dirty old toothless man trapped in a woman's body. Comprehensively awful. Had a man written this, he would have been lynched instantly. Avoid at all costs.
Rating: 4
Summary: give it another chance!
Comment: I disagree with a number of the previous reviewers. I think Acker uses her style effectively to drive a point home. She is rewriting the canon from a perspective of pain and oppression and her way of doing this is by attacking the very language that aids in her oppression. Janie must relearn language in her own way, hence we watch this process begin through drawings and a relaearning of the alphabet and finally a reconstruction and retelling of well known tales (e.g. The Scarlet Letter). Rather than being only dark and painful, I found the end to be somewhat uplifting by offering a glimmer of hope through the banding together of society's castoffs. It's a difficult book, but I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in seeing what happens when an author attempts to rewrite a personal history and in doing so urges us all to deconstruct our own narratives.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Map of My Dreams-- by Janey
Comment: Janey is a little girl wandering through a fantasy landscape of men who reject her-- her father, Jean Genet, the Persian Slave Trader, Tommy. This is a book communicating a world of pain-- the dialogues in the beginning between Janey and her father as he prepares to leave her for someone else carry the weight of the agony of someone being betrayed by someone so close and all the little lies and tricks we use to pull closer and push away. It's also a book about illness. Janey constantly has pain and infections and disease that cripple her, but she always pushes the physical pain to one side to focus on the men who she knows from the beginning are going to leave her.
It is not the easiest book in the world to read-- the emotion, rather than the plot, is the thread that ties the book together. There's a section in the book which is a series of drawings by Janey that provide a map to her dreams. I used this map to give the reading experience a kind of structure and I found that thinking about the book as a dream landscape made the lack of narrative much less jarring.
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Title: Pussy, King of the Pirates by Kathy Acker ISBN: 080213484X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Great Expectations by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0802131557 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: My Mother: Demonology by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0802134033 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0802131794 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Don Quixote: Which Was a Dream by Kathy Acker ISBN: 0802131921 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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