num_pages: 165
description: Jamey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. Once day she found a pencil stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down he life, starting with "Parents stink" (Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her). p With iBlood and Guts in High School,/i Kathy Acker, whose work has been labeled everthing from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, has created a brilliantly subversive narrative built from conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature.
language: English
title: Blood and Guts in High School
titlecomplete: Blood and Guts in High School
genres: 20th Century, American, Novels, Womens, Literature, Classics, Feminism, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 5621
publisher: Grove Press