Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens’s original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; becoming, by turns, a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw, through adventures incorporating desire, creativity, porn, sadism and art. This ribald explosion of literature, sex and violence shows the literary anarchist Kathy Acker at her most brilliant and brave.

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 144
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780241352144
ISBN 10: 0241352142