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The Portrait of an Eye
Paperback
General GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9780802157560
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jul 21 2020
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Kathy Acker's trancelike writing style peels away the layers of reality... Acker is an expert at evoking this shadowy realm of belief and emotion where the rules of cause and effect do not necessarily apply. --San Francisco Chronicle
Three early, self-published novels from Kathy Acker reissued with an original introduction by Kate Zambreno, the author of Heroines, Green Girl, Screen Tests, and more.
Beginning with The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula in 1973, Kathy Acker set out on a brilliant journey toward the boundaries of modern fiction that has made her one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation.
From the start, Kathy Acker created a brash and sexy female voice as shocking as the worlds she invokes. In Childlike Life she steps into the biography of a Mississippi murderess who falls in love with a famous lawyer. In I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac she takes a man capable of deceiving both sexes as her lover in a dreamy odyssey through the labyrinth of her desires. In The Adult Life Toulouse Lautrec is a woman starved for love and sex.
All of Acker's obsessions--the frenzy of sexual desire, the search for identity, the invention of a new literary language--are present here with savage purity and raw energy.
Now with an introduction by Kate Zambreno contextualizing the resurrection of these three early Acker novels, this new edition of Portrait of an Eye reminds us of all there is still to learn from Kathy Acker, a writer and artist whose work remains radical and uncanny, entirely inimitable, a smash and grab on the history of literature (Guardian).
Includes:
The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula
I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining
The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec
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