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Literal Madness: Three Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida Paperback - 1994

Name: LITERAL MADNESS
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ISBN: 9780802131560

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From the publisher

Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, "Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na'vet that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined" (Los Angeles Times).

My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini - wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bront sisters - is a "scathing commentary on false values in art" (The Hartford Courant)

In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves "a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials." (Booklist)

First line

KATHY is a middle-class, though she has no money, American white girl, twenty-nine years of age, no lovers and no prospects of money, who doesn't believe in anyone or anything.

From the rear cover

Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of the three novels in Literal Madness, 'speaks to us out of a delightful mock naivete that remind some at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex.

Details

Title Literal Madness: Three Novels: Kathy Goes to Haiti; My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini; Florida
Author Kathy Acker
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 352
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication date 1994-01-13
ISBN 9780802131560 / 0802131565
Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
Dimensions 8.51 x 5.59 x 1.04 in (21.62 x 14.20 x 2.64 cm)
Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Topical: Lgbt
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 87014860
Dewey Decimal Code FIC