About this title: Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love ...
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Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date Published: 1984-09-01
ISBN-13:9780802131935ISBN:080213193X
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780802131935. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780802131935ISBN:080213193X
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780802130754ISBN:0802130755
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" Tall. First Evergreen Edition. 2nd printing. 165 pages. Illustrated. Tight binding, clean pages. A touch of shelf/edge wear to wraps, with a short tear to bottom of spine, otherwise Very Good. No inscriptions. Not ex-library. Collectible. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994-01-11
ISBN-13:9780802131935ISBN:080213193X
Description: Good. All books in Acceptable-Good condition. Books may NOT include Online Access Codes (InfoTrac, MyEconLab). Books MAY contain highliting/bent pages. We ship M-F. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: GROVE/ATLANTIC INC
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802131935ISBN:080213193X
Description: New. Kathy Acker was a high-wire writer. She took risks. She experimented for the sake of it. She made mistakes. She fell. She never wanted a modest success, and so her books, all of them, swing from passages of topflight bravura, where you think, "How di... read more
"I'm on the fence about this one. I'm appreciative of all the space she opens up in terms of form/structure and not being bound by conventional expectations of narrative (plot/character); of the dialogue she's in with American Lit (Hawthorne) and the classics and contemporary lit. theory. I'm unclear whether she actually succeeds in subverting the objectification of women & sex as commodities or whether she ends up reinforcing them to the extent that every interaction in the book is sexualized. Sexual acts become as nonsensical and meaningless as a single word repeated over and over and over but hasn't this job already been done, isn't the real challenge to render them with some kind of meaning. if a novel poses questions many of which are unanswerable what is the novel's responsibility in terms of addressing those questions. In this one, Acker's narrator becomes a hieroglyphic and flies away."
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