{"product_id":"kathy-acker-blood-and-guts-in-high-school","title":"Kathy Acker: Blood and Guts in High School","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrove Press, 1998, softcover, 165 pages, 16 x 24 cm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGood condition. The cover and outside of the pages show signs of age and wear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a book about feminism, capitalism, sex, punk, youth, the city, the literary giants, anger, infatuation and the USA. A teenage coming-of-age story and a glorious, delirious patchwork of prose, poetry, drama, plagiarism and illustration. Childlike sexual drawings pepper the book, along with Acker’s surreal, minutely detailed, annotated ‘dream maps’. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story of Janey, who lived in a locked room, where she found a scrap of paper and began to write down her life. It’s a story of lust, sex, pain, youth, punk, anarchy, gangs, the city, feminism, America, Jean Genet and the prisons we create for ourselves. A heady, surreal mash-up of coming-of-age tale, prose, poetry, plagiarism and illustration, Kathy Acker’s breakthrough 1984 novel caused huge controversy and made her an avant-garde literary icon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58464674709888,"sku":null,"price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/WhatsAppImage2026-08-18at14.10.23.jpg?v=1787058800","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/kathy-acker-blood-and-guts-in-high-school","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}