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Lust for Life

On the Writings of Kathy Acker

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Scholars, artists and writers consider the works of the most transgressive literary icon of the late 20th century.

Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, femContinue

Scholars, artists and writers consider the works of the most transgressive literary icon of the late 20th century.

Kathy Acker was one of the most original, subversive and influential writers of the late 20th century. Known variously, and notoriously, as a consummate postmodernist, feminist, post-punk and plagiarist, her oeuvre—over a dozen novels and novellas—has inspired a generation of writers and artists.

Lust for Life is the definitive collection of essays on Acker's inimitable work, including Peter Wollen's elegiac primer, widely considered the best introduction to Acker, and Avital Ronell's erudite meditation on friendship and mourning. Together these essays by scholars and writers reveal Acker's profound and innovative project, and the ways in which fiction can penetrate the heart of political and cultural life.

Contributors include Nayland Blake, Leslie Dick, Robert Glück, Carla Harryman, Laurence Rickels, Avital Ronell, Barrett Watten, and Peter Wollen.

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  • The Best Reviews: Adele Parks, Lust for Life

    "Complex relationship drama" Raising two infants (two and a half year old Mathew and ten month old Maisie) is hard work, but Martha loves being a mother and wife to Michael though at times she covets the freedom that her sister Eliza enjoys. Thirty y ... (read full critics)

    thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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    Kathy Acker wrote 13 novels and published one collection of essays before her death from cancer, aged 53, in 1997. Born in New York, she began writing when she returned there in the early 1970s after studying at Brandeis and the University of Califor ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Sat, 4 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 160 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 184467066X
  • ISBN-13: 9781844670666
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Pub date: May 15, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 968 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
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