GREAT EXPECTATIONS
(1983)
First edition of Acker's rewriting and reinterpretation of Charles Dickens's famed coming-of-age novel.
Fine in a fine jacket.
Price: $150.00
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First edition of Acker's rewriting and reinterpretation of Charles Dickens's famed coming-of-age novel.
Fine in a fine jacket.
Price: $150.00
"Kathy Acker not only set out to work variations on classic literary texts, but also to subvert all of our traditional expectations concerning causality, narrative form and moral sensibility." — Michiko Kakutani
Told with Acker's typical sense of experimentation, appropriation, and brutal honesty. Oddly uncommon and a beautiful copy.
Read more: Michiko Kakutani, "Books of the Times," New York Times Dec. 30, 1987.
First printing. New York: Grove Press, (1983). 8'' x 5''. Publisher's quarter black cloth over black boards. In original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial jacket designed by Roy Colmer after art by Sue Coe. 128 pages. Bright and sharp overall.
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