{"product_id":"great-expectations-reissue-9780802128546","title":"Great Expectations (Reissue)","description":"Kathy Acker's practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious--as a rebel and a groundbreaker--when \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens's classic--splicing it with passages from Pierre Guyotat's sexually violent \u003ci\u003eEden, Eden, Eden\u003c\/i\u003e, among other texts--alongside Acker's trademark pithy dialogue, as well as prank missives to the likes of Susan Sontag, Sylv re Lotringer, and God. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the center of this form-shifting narrative, Acker's protagonist collects an inheritance following her mother's suicide, which compels her to revisit and reinterpret traumatic scenes from the past. Switching perspectives, identities, genders, and centuries, the speaker lustily ransacks world literature to celebrate and challenge the discourse around art, love, life, and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802128546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Kathy Acker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36643406151836,"sku":"9780802128546","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6efe71c1-c5f9-441f-9cd8-719d8e423f65.jpg?v=1603856569","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/great-expectations-reissue-9780802128546","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}