Description

Step into the raw, electric pulse of New York City in 1979, captured through the unflinching lens of Kathy Acker's singular vision. This collection plunges readers into a city of fractured desires and unstable identities, where love, violence, and performance bleed into one another. Through a charged collage of impressions, Acker crafts a fever-dream portrait, punctuated by stark photographs that amplify the themes of artifice, power, and the body's insistent reality. Experience a boundary-bending work that transforms the urban landscape into a living text, questioning survival and truth in a world saturated with the fake.

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paperback

Penguin Random House

Published Feb 22, 2018

64 pages

ISBN: 9780241338896

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Details

First Published

1981

Language

eng

Content Warnings

Content and trigger warnings for New York City in 1979 by Kathy Acker.

Sexual Content
Violence
Substance Use
Sexual Violence