KATHY ACKER — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1989

New Evergreen edition, published by Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1989. Cover design by Jo Bonney; cover photograph by Michel Delsol. Illustrated softcover; 165 pages; 15.5 × 23.5 cm. ISBN 0-8021-3193-X.

Condition: good; light rubbing, edge wear and shallow creasing to wrappers, with a more pronounced handling crease near the lower left edge. The white vertical ‘tear’ across the portrait is printed as part of the cover design, not damage. Interior condition not yet confirmed.

Written during the late 1970s and first published in 1984, Blood and Guts in High School became Kathy Acker’s best-known work. The book dismantles conventional narrative through appropriated literature, dialogue, drawings, maps and deliberately unstable shifts in voice. This 1989 edition returned it to circulation through Grove’s Evergreen imprint, placing Acker’s experimental writing within the lineage of the publisher’s countercultural paperback programme.

Jo Bonney’s cover converts Acker’s author portrait into a divided surface. The apparently torn image is entirely reproduced: fracture presented as design, identity already split before the book is opened.

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