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9781852424855 | New edition (Serpents Tail, February 1, 2006), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: From art and cinema, through politics, bodybuilding, science fiction and the city, this work reflects and challenges the times in which we live.
9781852424251 | Serpents Tail, September 1, 1997, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: With enervating experimentation but touching directness, postmodern novelist Acker (Portrait of an Eve, 1992; My Mother: Demonology, 1993; etc.
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9782914563178 | Dis Voir Editions, January 15, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this collaborative volume, the writer and artist Paul Buck works with the late Kathy Acker.
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9780802139207 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of Kathy Acker's writing career.
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9780802139214 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, October 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Kathy Acker pushed literary boundaries with a vigor and creative fire that made her one of America's preeminent experimental writers and her books cult classics.
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9781891273025 | Artspace Books, May 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: An irreverent document of Artspace's 15-year commitment to exhibitions, publications, performances, videos and film, this book challenges the notion of what an organization for and about artists can be at the dawn of the 21st century.
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9781899598526 | Codex Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $18.95
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9780802111708 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, June 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "In Memoriam to Identity is a weird, violent, searing, angry work, full of pain, dislocation, desire, hate and the raging drive of resistant creation.
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9780802135797 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1998), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love.
9780679738428 | Reprint edition (Pantheon Books, February 1, 1992), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "In Memoriam to Identity is a weird, violent, searing, angry work, full of pain, dislocation, desire, hate and the raging drive of resistant creation.
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9781888209044 | Passim Inc, July 1, 1998, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: SPECTACULAR OPTICAL is a book published by TRANS> arts.
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9780802135438 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula; I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac; The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
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9780802115782 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780802134844 | Grove Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: An erotic and dreamlike reinterpretation of 'Treasure Island' is told from a female perspective, featuring a crew of women on a wild adventure from an Alexandrian whorehouse to Pirate Island
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9781871592221 | Revised edition (Creation Pub Group, September 1, 1996), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Painters, cyberpunks, dog-boys, mad scientists, occultists, neoists, performance artists, film-makers, writerss, leopard-girls and voodoo horsemen.
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9781871592443 | Creation Pub Group, March 1, 1996, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: "The crucifixion of modern literature.
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9780964785502 | Reprint edition (New Art Examiner, September 1, 1995), cover price $10.00
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Product Description: "If one day, a bad girl named Dante met a mean dyke called Hieronymous Bosch, this is the book they'd make."—Jenny Livingstone, director, Paris Burning."Scarified sensibility, subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other" —The New York Times Book ReviewKathy Acker holds a unique place among American novelists, as a writer who constantly pushes at the frontiers of modern fiction, with each new work advancing further into uncharted territory. Puss...read more
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9781873176634 | A K Pr Distribution, April 1, 1995, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: "If one day, a bad girl named Dante met a mean dyke called Hieronymous Bosch, this is the book they'd make.
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9780679403494 | Pantheon Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Laure, a woman torn apart by the conflicts between her sexuality and her feminism, embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes her back to her childhood
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9780802134035 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Based loosely on the relationship between Colette Peignot and Georges Bataille, My Mother: Demonology is the powerful story of a woman's struggle with the contradictory impulses for love and solitude.
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9780679740230 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula; I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac; The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
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9780936756684 | Semiotext, June 1, 1991, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: You can say I write stories with sex and violence and therefore my writing isn't worth considering because it uses content much less lots of content.
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9780802131553 | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era’s cherished beliefs about life and art.
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9780802131799 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Acker continues her post-modern explorations with a story set in a bleak world where the society we know is dying in its own ruins.
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9780802131560 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, July 1, 1989), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A dead man tries to solve the mystery of his murder, a woman discovers sexual obsession on a holiday trip, and a gangster terrorizes hotel guests
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A dead man tries to solve the mystery of his murder, a woman discovers sexual obsession on a holiday trip, and a gangster terrorizes hotel guests
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9780802100016 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, December 1, 1987), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A dead man tries to solve the mystery of his murder, a woman discovers sexual obsession on a holiday trip, and a gangster terrorizes hotel guests
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9780802131928 | Grove Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Facing the trauma of an abortion, a young woman mentally escapes by setting out on a series of adventures as Don Quixote
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9780802131935 | Grove Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Janey Smith keeps a journal of her dreams and experiences as she is rejected by her father, kidnapped by thieves, and sold into prostitution
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9780936556079, titled "Hello, I'm Erica Jong" | Contact II Pubns, June 1, 1982, cover price $3.00
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9780917061097 | Top Stories, June 1, 1981, cover price $21.50
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