- Published: 16 October 2017
- ISBN: 9780241302514
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $22.99
Blood and Guts in High School

















- Published: 16 October 2017
- ISBN: 9780241302514
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $22.99
Acker's work, more than that of any other writer I can think of, challenged the traditional lines of demarcation between poetry and novel, between high culture and popular trash and, perhaps most important of all, between literature and art world.
London Review of Books, Peter Wollen
A coming-of-age story which examines incest and paedophilia with a profoundly Sadist literary bent ... can be credited with moving mainstream literature into indie territory.
A Stevens, Guardian
Acker is a postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill
William S. Burroughs
[Kathy Acker is] part rebel bohemian avant-gardiste, part NYC downtown punk, and part venerable literary grande dame
Michael Bracewell
Twenty years after her death and I still miss her
Neil Gaiman
Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul
William S. Burroughs
Acker understands that writing without myth is nothing
Chris Kraus
Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer
Jeanette Winterson
Scarified sensibility,subversive intellect, and predatory wit make her a writer like no other
The New York Times Review of Books
An avatar of nomadic urban modern primitive tribes... her novels perform postmodern campfire grill voodoo... She was a magician
R.U. Sirius
Reading Kathy Acker is like playing hopscotch with a genius
Richard Foreman