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Pussy, King of the Pirates
by Kathy Acker
ISBN: 080213484X
ISBN-13: 9780802134844
Format: Paperback
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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."
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"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: Grove Pr
Published date: 1997
Size: 6 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Publisher's Notes
Loosely related to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Treasure Island, Pussy, King of the Pirates is a grrrl 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. Ransacking world history, literature, and language itself to speak to the current zeitgeist, Pussy, King of the Pirates is the literary analogue to the wild girl energy that dominates our rock and roll culture in the 1990s. A daring and passionate litany of disparate narratives and voices, poetry and prose, words and images, Kathy Acker's newest novel is perhaps her most subversive to date. Her meditations on love, sex, death, and art have made her a writer like no one else working today.
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Pr, 1997. Trade-size softcover book, brand new, as purchased from pub. for resale.. ( more information) Offered by Three Gentlemen Booksellers (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Pr. 1997. Reprint. S Paperback. Good - Highlighter to Text. Ink and highlighter to text; label on endpaper. ( more information) Offered by Arundel Books of Seattle (United States)
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New York, New York: Grove Press, 1996. paperback. Good/No Jacket. Light creasing to corners, some edge wear and rubbing. Creasing to spine. Underlining and highlighting to text. ISBN: 080213484X. ( more information) Offered by Adventures Underground (United States)
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New York, Grove / Atlantic, 1997, 1997. ///. FINE in stiff wraps. 8vo, trade paperback, 277pp, maps. (Fiction) + + We pack carefully and ship promptly.+ +. ISBN: 080213484X. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. ( more information) Offered by Chestnut Street Books (United States)
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Pr, 1997. Book has seen little use. Clean, bright, tight and unmarked. First paperback printing. Red felt pen line lower edge.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by burton house books (United States)
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New York, New York: Grove Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Remainder marks, light edge wear otherwise. "Once again displaying her penchant--and talent--for scavenging extant texts, Acker exploits Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Pauline Reage's The Story of O, among other sources, fusing the carnal, the cerebral and the surreal into a fantastical tale" (Publishers Weekly). ISBN: 0-8021-3484-X. ( more information) Offered by Muses Books (United States)
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New York: Grove Press, 1996. Trade paper. Transgressive writing.. ISBN: 0-8021-3484-X. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paper. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Fiction Transgressive Porno Sex Lust. ( more information) Offered by A Street Books (United States)
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Grove, 1996. 1st pb.. Softcover. NF.. Goofy humour, sexual energy and just plain wierdness. Trade Paperback ( more information) Offered by Old Goat Books (Canada)
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