Literal Madness

Literal Madness

Omnibus ed

Paperback (24 Feb 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, "Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na'veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined" (Los Angeles Times).

My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini - wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bronté sisters - is a "scathing commentary on false values in art" (The Hartford Courant)

In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves "a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials." (Booklist)

Book information

ISBN: 9780802131560
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Imprint: Grove Press
Pub date:
Edition: Omnibus ed
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 410
Weight: 457g
Height: 210mm
Width: 135mm
Spine width: 26mm