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New York City in 1979

New York City in 1979

Summary

'INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD'

A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

About the author

Kathy Acker

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