Title: Rip-off Red, girl detective and the burning bombing of America
Subtitle: the destruction of the U.S.
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Women private investigators in fiction, Women private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Private investigators, fiction, New york (state), fiction
Places: New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York
LC classification: PS3551.C44 R57 2002