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Pussy, King of the Pirates
by Kathy Acker
ISBN: 0802115780
ISBN-13: 9780802115782
Format: Hardcover
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"Acker continues her dizzying experiments in fiction-her dream narratives with their loose structure and shifting pronouns-and again punctuates her prose with the same tired insights on sex, class, and politics...In Acker's...world, homeless people, masturbation, body piercing, and S&M are good; patriarchy, rationality, and morality are bad...Acker commands a drab vocabulary and limited range of discourse. Some nice sacrilegious images will please the armchair rebels among her readers."
-- Kirkus
"I think I see the world through a sexual lens, like Genet. The idea that you exist to please men-that is almost relentlessly my subject. " -- Kathy Acker
"Kathy Acker recalls Scheherazade, exploding with stories against the possibilities of death in narratives stripped to their harshest and most basic strategies. Whether, as here, she is recreating Artaud's letters or the 'Story of O', the energy is infectious and the intelligence lances about, flaying open the places where truth hides beneath sex, where, among her coruscating ironies, comedy, drama, and thermite-bright insights nudge one another out from behind her outrageous and accurate sentences." -- Samuel R. Delany
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Pgw
Published date: 1996
Size: 6 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Pages: 276
Publisher's Notes
A reinterpretation of Treasure Island is told from a girl's perspective, placing such colorful characters as O, Ange, Lulu, Pussycat, and Antigone on a wild adventure from an Alexandrian whorehouse to Pirate Island. Tour.
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Kathy Acker, Grove Press
Grove Pr. Used - Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information) Offered by Better World Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy; Grove Press
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, Inc.. Fine/Near Fine. 1996. Second Printing. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0-8021-1578-0 . ( more information) Offered by Yates Publishing (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates (HC/DJ)
Acker, Kathy; Grove Press
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 1996. Light Cosmetic wear, edges and spine crisp, Binding Tight, ** OLD RANCH BOOKS: A Family Operated Bookstore Online Since '99 ** Bookstore - Online Since '99 **. First Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. ( more information) Offered by OLD RANCH BOOKS (A Family Bookstore Online Since '99) (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Kathy Acker
Grove Pr. Used - Like New. 1st ed. 1996 Hardcover. Fine. ( more information) Offered by Powell's Bookstores Chicago (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. Fine/Fine DJ/Fine. 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0-8021-1578-0 . ( more information) Offered by Bookhawk (United States)
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PUSSY, KING OF THE PIRATES
Acker, Kathy
New in New dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802115780 . Grove Press, c1996, stated First Edition, complete number line, Fine/Fine dust jacket, 277 pages, FICTION; F3579 Afic . ( more information) Offered by m.l. granlund - bookseller (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy
NY: Grove Press, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine in Fine DJ. Postmodern author tells strange, female Treasure Island mythical story. ( more information) Offered by Old Algonquin Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy; Grove Press
NY: Grove Press. As New/As New. 1996. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0802115780 illustrated endpapers. foredge uncut, 277p . ( more information) Offered by Better Book Getter (United States)
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pussy king of the pirates
acker, kathy
Hard Cover. Grove Press 1996. First Edition. All books in VG or better condition. ( more information) Offered by Sixth Chamber Used Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy
New York: Grove Press, 1996. Hb. VG/VG. 1st. 277pp. Map. Light wear boards, small dent top-edge, DJ: rubbing and wear.. F. Hardcover. ( more information) Offered by Priceless Books (United States)
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PUSSY, KING OF THE PIRATES
ACKER, Kathy
NY: Grove Press, 1996. First Edition. 277 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated. Fine with Fine- black dustjacket in protective glassine. ISBN: 0802115780 ( more information) Offered by Horizon Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1996 Hardcopy with black paper-covered boards and spine, silver printing on spine, is in VERY FINE condition. Brodart-wrapped DJ, NOT price-clipped, is VERY FINE as well. Kathy Acker has been a major figure in postmodern literature for many years. "Pussy, King of the Pirates" continues the original, experimental style that her readers have come to expect. But this new novel takes her work one step further, marking the apex of Acker's abilities as a hypnotic and daring storyteller. Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island," "Pussy, King of the Pirates" is a grrrrl pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria through an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future, to Brighton Town, England, and, finally to a ship headed toward Pirate Island, where the stories converge and the vision ends.. First Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black Paper-Covered Boards. ( more information) Offered by Chozen Books (United States)
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Pussy, King Of The Pirates
Kathy Acker
Grove Press, 1996. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/Fine. First printing of first edition, slight stain to page body on bottom. DJ covered in Mylar shows only minimal shelf wear! ( more information) Offered by BecLyn Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1996. Hardcopy with black paper-covered boards and spine, silver printing on spine, is in VERY FINE condition. Brodart-wrapped DJ, NOT price-clipped, is VERY FINE as well. Kathy Acker has been a major figure in postmodern literature for many years. "Pussy, King of the Pirates" continues the original, experimental style that her readers have come to expect. But this new novel takes her work one step further, marking the apex of Acker's abilities as a hypnotic and daring storyteller. Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic "Treasure Island," "Pussy, King of the Pirates" is a grrrrl pirate story that journeys from the most famous whorehouse in Alexandria through an unidentified, crumbling city that may or may not be sometime in the future, to Brighton Town, England, and, finally to a ship headed toward Pirate Island, where the stories converge and the vision ends.. First Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black Paper-Covered Boards. ( more information) Offered by Chozen Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 1996 book and neatly clipped dust jacket are both clean and bright with no chips tears or creases.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Fine/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by King Bee Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates by Acker, Kathy; Grove Press
Kathy Acker; Grove Press
Grove Pr, 1996-01. 1st ed. Hardcover. Like New. FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING - light shelf wear to dj ( more information) Offered by Bookstore at the End of the Universe (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates (Qty: 4)
Kathy Acker
Grove Pr. Hardcover. Very Good. Satisfaction Guaranteed! ( more information) Offered by more books (United States)
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Pussy, King Of The Pirates
Kathy Acker
Grove Press, 1996. Stated First Edition. Hard Cover. Collectible-Very Good/Fine. First printing of first edition, slight stain to page body on bottom. DJ covered in Mylar shows only minimal shelf wear! ( more information) Offered by BecLyn Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy and Grove Press
New York: Grove Press, 1996. Hardcover First Edition, First printing Hardcover in Fine condition in Fine DJ. Bound in black boards. Acker, a widely known contemporary author, is famous for her blunt and unapologetic meditations on love, sex, art and death. ( more information) Offered by Wellington Square Bookshop (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates
Acker, Kathy
New York: Grove Press. Very Good- in Very Good+ dust jacket 1996. Hardcover. Signed by Acker on page after contents. Book is VG-; noticeable shelfwear to boards, corners noticeably bumped, interior pages have browned noticeably, else fine. DJ is VG+; very minor shelfwear. ; 1.25 x 8.5 x 6 Inches; 276 pages; Signed by Author . ( more information) Offered by Magus Books (United States)
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Pussy, King of the Pirates (Qty: 2)
Kathy Acker
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