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139 ratings, 3.80 average rating, 6 reviews
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published
January 18th 1989
by Grove Press
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Paperback, 128 pages
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isbn
0802131557
(isbn13: 9780802131553)
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Using postmodern form, Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations moves her narrator through time, gender, and identity as it examines our era’s che...more
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Read in April, 2005
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This is one of Acker's lushest books, but one of her most caustic books as well. One could argue that all her books are simultaneously sadistic and masochistic...this one being no exception in that regard...the Dickens title and parody refer more to the expectations artists hold for the artistic life, and she brutally dissects all this with the eye of an economist...she equates the economies that thrive in art with the basest forms of prostitution....but the language is richly baroque and the im...more
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The overall story line is slow, and somewhat difficult to get through, but Charles Dickens writing is beautiful!
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Read in March, 2000
This book screws with your mind in such a beautiful way. I was left bewildered and loving every second of it....
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