Description

• Acker’s breakthrough work, Blood & Guts In High School, was completed in 1978 but, after signing & breaking contracts with at least three publishers, didn’t reach publication until this Picador edition [which reputedly sold out within three weeks of publication*]
• Published soon afterwards in her native US as a standalone novel
• A collage of drawings, prose, poetry & plagiarised texts, Acker uses a cut-up method to produce one of the edgiest novels ever written
• Stunning front cover illustration
• Published together with two short novels – Great Expectations & My Death, My Life
• First Edition [Picador, London, 1984]; illustrated card wraps, very gently rubbed, distributor price sticker [Australian] on rear, a near-fine copy; ISBN 0-330-28186-0 / 0330281860

*Paris Review, 2017