Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America
Subtitle: the destruction of the U.S.
By: Kathy Acker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Women private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of her career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Kathy Acker's typical literary playfulness transforms the genre conventions of detective fiction into a book that is simultaneously a mystery and a personal, raunchy, and politically astute account of life in New York City.

The Burning Bombing of America is a dystopian vision of the destruction of America, combining crypto-Socialist class critique with the visceral surreality of the Book of Revelation. Published together here, they reveal a young writer on a literary romp, imposing an original, sexy, and subversive worldview that is unmistakably Acker. They are a perfect introduction to Acker's oeuvre and essential for all Acker readers."--BOOK JACKET.