Great Expectations

Author(s): Kathy Acker

Lesbian & Bi Fiction

Great Expectationsis a punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original masterpiece. Pip, our narrator -familiar and unfamiliar - is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; an orphan whose adventures incorporate desire, gender and identity, the dislocation between sex and love, art and creativity, social unrest, feminism, porn and sadism. She/he becomes a sailor, a pirate, a rebeland an outlaw. Kathy Acker is a literary anarchist and here she is at the very top of her riotous game.

July 2018


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780241352144
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.112
  • : 1 Centimeters X 13 Centimeters X 19.6 Centimeters
  • : July 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 208
  • : 813/.54
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Kathy Acker