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''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.

New York City in 1979 Kathy Acker Penguin Modern

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 22 February 2018
      ISBN-13 9780241338896
      978-0241338896
      ISBN-10 0241338891
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      Fiction Anthologies & Short Stories Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''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.

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