{"product_id":"kathy-acker-literal-madness-three-novels-grove-press-1988","title":"KATHY ACKER — Literal Madness: Three Novels, Grove Press, New York, 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst combined edition, published by Grove Press, New York, 1988. Hardcover in illustrated dust jacket; jacket design and illustration by George Corsillo; author photograph by Kate Simon. 410 pages. ISBN 0-8021-0001-5.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContains: \u003cem\u003eKathy Goes to Haiti\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eMy Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cem\u003eFlorida\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e good, visibly handled; rubbing, scratching and creasing to the dust jacket, with edge wear, small chips and softened corners. Small label retained on the rear jacket. The jacket remains substantially complete; boards and interior condition not confirmed from the photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the 1988 Grove Press hardcover, not the later Evergreen paperback — and more precisely the first combined edition of the three texts. \u003cem\u003eKathy Goes to Haiti\u003c\/em\u003e originally appeared in 1978, \u003cem\u003eMy Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini\u003c\/em\u003e in 1984, while \u003cem\u003eFlorida\u003c\/em\u003e received its first book publication here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBringing the works together reveals three different forms of reuse. Travel writing, literary biography and film noir become unstable structures through which Acker writes sexuality, political power and identity. In \u003cem\u003eFlorida\u003c\/em\u003e, John Huston’s \u003cem\u003eKey Largo\u003c\/em\u003e is compressed into something closer to a script, transcription and residue; Pasolini returns as the author and investigator of his own death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection also records Acker’s movement into a broader American publishing system. Previously dispersed texts are consolidated into a substantial Grove hardcover, given a unified commercial design and redistributed as a single body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54099527401810,"sku":"ACKER-GROVE-CAT-1988","price":125.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Acker_Kathy._Literal_Madness._1987.jpg?v=1785060456","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/kathy-acker-literal-madness-three-novels-grove-press-1988","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}