Kathy Acker
Birth date: April 18, 1947
Died: November 30, 1997
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Kathy Acker's Don Quixote, which explores and pushes the boundaries of gender and sexual identity, certainly shocks the system, as Acker intends it to. This book is full of cuss words, "low-brow" language, and graphic, even crude, sexual encounters. Part of this seems to be purely for shock value; h...
A truly awful book - 1 part [b:The Atrocity Exhibition|70240|The Atrocity Exhibition|J.G. Ballard|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328698296s/70240.jpg|68057], 1 part concrete poetry, 1 part Farsi exercise book, 3 parts crystal meth, and 7 parts blotter acid.
I finished [b:Blood and Guts in High School|321950|Blood and Guts in High School|Kathy Acker|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327880994s/321950.jpg|817580] but found this completely unreadable. Recommended only for masochists.
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...
Stylistically, this felt close to the Heinlein that I've read, with lots of free love, gender bending, libertarianism, communal relationships, and non-Terran humans at odds with Earth. Plus lots and lots of infodumping--not a chapter went by without several pages of the classic sf "as you know Bob....
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