Title: Great expectations
Subtitle: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)
First published: 1982
Description: " ... At the center of this form-shifting narrative, Acker's protagonist collects an inheritance following her mother's suicide, which compels her to revisit and reinterpret traumatic scenes from the past. Switching perspectives, identities, genders, and centuries, the speaker lustily ransacks world literature to celebrate and challenge the discourse around art, love, life, and death"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Fiction, erotica, general, Fiction, general, Social classes, Social life and customs, Industrial revolution, Specimens, American Experimental fiction, Fiction, England, fiction, American fiction