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Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America
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Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Kathy Acker

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Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of Acker's writing career. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an original, sexy, and subversive world view that is unmistakably Acker.

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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. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an original, sexy, and subversive worldview that is unmistakably Acker. They are a perfect introduction to Acker's oeuvre and essential for all Acker readers. "Kathy Acker's trancelike writing style peels away the layers of reality." -- San Francisco Chronicle "America's most beloved transgressive novelist." -- Spin "Acker is a postmodern Colette with echoes of Cleland's Fanny Hill." -- William S. Burroughs

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  • Title Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America
  • Author Kathy Acker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2002-09
  • ISBN 9780802139207 / 0802139205
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.57 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.45 cm)
  • Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, New York (N.Y.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002029415
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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