Great Expectations by Kathy Acker Groundswell Speaker 2024

Great Expectations by Kathy Acker Groundswell Speaker 2024'New York City is very peaceful and quiet, and the pale grey mists are slowly rising, to show me the world' Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; becoming, by turns, a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw, through adventures incorporating desire, creativity,

In the process

illness and fear

While confined to a series of hospital wards

A sumptuous aesthetic is paired with practical tips on identifying backyard breeds and supporting good chicken health

author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club

out to have fun

to be caught between the rollers of his beloved Adler Gabriele: 'Words returning with a bang and a bell to the left-hand margin

Yamaye meets Moose

It covers a pivotal thirty years in European history

fun-packed thriller with juicy stakes

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Greeted as a masterpiece when it was published in 1967