Grove Weidenfeld
KATHY ACKER — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1989
KATHY ACKER — Blood and Guts in High School, Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1989
- Artist
- Kathy Acker
- Publisher
- Grove Weidenfeld
- Place & year
- New York, 1989
- Type
- Artist Book
- Format
- Illustrated softcover, 165 pp.; New Evergreen edition
- Size
- 15.5 × 23.5 cm
- With
- Cover design by Jo Bonney; cover photograph by Michel Delsol
- 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 cover design, not damage; interior not yet confirmed.
- Register
- TNR-2026-0440 · 25 July 2026
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Notes
ISBN 0-8021-3193-X.
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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