num_pages: 272
description: In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again. Airplane takes a job dancing at Fun City, the seventh tier of the sex industry, in order to support her good-for-nothing boyfriend. And Capitol feels alive only when she's having sex with her brother, Quentin. In Memoriam to Identity is at once a revelatory addition to, and an irreverent critique of, the literature of decadence and self-destruction.
language: English
title: In Memoriam to Identity
titlecomplete: In Memoriam to Identity
genres: American, Modern, LGBT, Feminism, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction, Queer
ratings_count: 433
publisher: Grove Press