Great expectations
Acker, Kathy, 1948-19972018
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This is a punk, fairy-tale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator - familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and creativity, social unrest, feminism, porn and sadism. S/he becomes a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw.
Main title:
Great expectations / Kathy Acker.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2018.London : Penguin Classics, 2018.
Collation:
208 pages ; 20 cm.
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Notes:
Originally published: New York: Grove, 1982.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780241352144 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1959743