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- catalog abstract ""Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of her career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Kathy Acker's typical literary playfulness transforms the genre conventions of detective fiction into a book that is simultaneously a mystery and a personal, raunchy, and politically astute account of life in New York City. The Burning Bombing of America is a dystopian vision of the destruction of America, combining crypto-Socialist class critique with the visceral surreality of the Book of Revelation. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an original, sexy, and subversive worldview that is unmistakably Acker. They are a perfect introduction to Acker's oeuvre and essential for all Acker readers."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12625815.
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of her career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Kathy Acker's typical literary playfulness transforms the genre conventions of detective fiction into a book that is simultaneously a mystery and a personal, raunchy, and politically astute account of life in New York City. The Burning Bombing of America is a dystopian vision of the destruction of America, combining crypto-Socialist class critique with the visceral surreality of the Book of Revelation. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an original, sexy, and subversive worldview that is unmistakably Acker. They are a perfect introduction to Acker's oeuvre and essential for all Acker readers."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "201 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America.".
- catalog identifier "0802139205".
- catalog isFormatOf "Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Grove Press,".
- catalog relation "Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "PS3551.C44 R57 2002".
- catalog subject "Women private investigators New York (State) New York Fiction.".
- catalog title "Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America : the destruction of the U.S. / Kathy Acker.".
- catalog type "Dystopias. gsafd".
- catalog type "Experimental fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Experimental fiction.".
- catalog type "Mystery fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".