Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of Ameri
  • Published:
    Sep-2002
  • Formats:
    Print
  • Main Genre:
    Suspense
  • Pages:
    144
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Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of Kathy Acker's writing career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as 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.
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    • First Edition
    • Sep-2002
    • Grove Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0802139205
    • ISBN13: 9780802139207



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