| In Memoriam to Identity Contributor(s): Acker, Kathy (Author) |
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ISBN: 080213579X ISBN-13: 9780802135797 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1998 Annotation: Kathy Acker's characteristically outrageous, lyrical, and hyperinventive novel concerns three characters who share an impulse toward self-immolation through doomed, obsessive romance. Teetering somewhere between the Beats and Punk, IN MEMORIAM TO IDENTITY is at once a revelatory addition to, and an irreverent critique of, literature of decadence and self-destruction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89048921 |
| Series: Acker, Kathy |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.49" W x 8.23" (0.69 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again. Airplane takes a job dancing at Fun City, the seventh tier of the sex industry, in order to support her good-for-nothing boyfriend. And Capitol feels alive only when she's having sex with her brother, Quentin. In Memoriam to Identity is at once a revelatory addition to, and an irreverent critique of, the literature of decadence and self-destruction. |