{"product_id":"9780241302514-blood-and-guts-in-high-school","title":"Blood and Guts in High School","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' William S. Burroughs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of Janey, who lived in a locked room, where she found a scrap of paper and began to write down her life. It's a story of lust, sex, pain, youth, punk, anarchy, gangs, the city, feminism, America, Jean Genet and the prisons we create for ourselves. A heady, surreal mash-up of coming-of-age tale, prose, poetry, plagiarism and illustration, Kathy Acker's breakthrough 1984 novel caused huge controversy and made her an avant-garde literary icon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Kathy Acker's untimely death, \u003ci\u003eBlood and Guts in High School \u003c\/i\u003eis published for the first time in Penguin Classics, acknowledging the profound impact she has had on our culture, and alongside the authors her work pulsates with the influence of: William S. Burroughs, Cervantes and Charles Dickens, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30339684761697,"sku":"9780241302514","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32164144.jpg?v=1737016969","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241302514-blood-and-guts-in-high-school","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}