ARGONAUT BOOKS

This is a book about feminism, capitalism, sex, punk, youth, the city, the literary giants, anger, infatuation and the USA. A teenage coming-of-age story and a glorious, delirious patchwork of prose, poetry, drama, plagiarism and illustration. Childlike sexual drawings pepper the book, along with Acker's surreal, minutely detailed, annotated 'dream maps'. Reviews Acker is a postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny HillWilliam S. BurroughsA coming-of-age story which examines incest and paedophilia with a profoundly Sadist literary bent ... can be credited with mo...Read More