Empire of the Senseless
Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins.
Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802131799 (0802131794)
Publish date: January 13th 1994
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
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SUMMARY OF AUTHOR, BOOK NOWkathy acker is the vicious successor to william s. burroughs: twisted master of the cut-up technique, postmodern doyenne, a romantic and nihilistic and clear-eyed uber-feminist, punk dyke (kinda), giddy regurgitator of scifi/horror/erotica tropes, transgressive misanthrope...