In Memoriam to Identity
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In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again. Airplane takes a job dancing at Fun City, the seventh tier of the sex industry, in order to support her good-for-nothing boyfriend. And Capitol feels alive only when she's having sex with her brother, Quentin. In Memoriam to Identity is at once a revelatory addition to, and an irreverent critique of, the literature of decadence and self-destruction.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780802135797 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 24 Sep 1998 |
DEWEY: | 813.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 265 |
Weight: | 317g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 140mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |