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Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker

Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker

Janey Smith keeps a journal of her dreams and experiences as she is rejected by her father, kidnapped by thieves, and sold into prostitution.

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"I read this novel by kathy acker when it first appeared on the scene in the 1980's, not only did i revel in the literary style of this new yorkist, rampant, angst female, in this her first work, she seemed to sum up the feelings of the age, of the post punk feminist free woman, and how still she suffered within the dominated world of the greedy selfish money-making, hypocrital, self made man-machine, pure genuis pure acker"

 

Blood and Guts was banned as pornographic in West Germany and South Africa.

It is featured in Peter Boxall's book, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and The Little Black Book of Books.