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Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels: The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula/I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining/The Adult Life of Tou

by Kathy Acker

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Synopsis:

Beginning with The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula in 1973, Kathy Acker set out on a brilliant journey exploring the boundaries of modern fiction that has since made her one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation.

From the start, Kathy Acker created a brash and sexy female voice as shocking as the worlds she invokes. In Childlike Life she steps into the biography of a Mississippi murderess who falls in love with a famous lawyer. In I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac she takes a man capable of deceiving both sexes as her lover in a dreamy odyssey through the labyrinth of her desires. In The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec is a woman starved for love and sex.

All of Acker's obsessions — the frenzy of sexual desire, the search for identity, the invention of a new literary language — are present here with a savage purity and raw energy matched only rarely in her later works.

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The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula; I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac; The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

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The childlike life of the black tarantula — I dreamt I was a nymphomaniac — The adult life of Toulouse Lautrec.

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ISBN:

9780802135438

Author:

Acker, Kathy

Publisher:

Grove Press

Location:

New York :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Women

Subject:

Women -- Psychology -- Fiction.

Subject:

Women -- Fiction.

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Edition Description:

Trade Paper

Series:

Acker, Kathy

Series Volume:

AR-3

Publication Date:

19971231

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Language:

English

Illustrations:

Yes

Pages:

320

Dimensions:

8.25 x 5.5 in 13 lb

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Product details 320 pages Grove Press - 1997-12-00 English 9780802135438 Reviews:

"Synopsis" by Ingram, Beginning with The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula in 1973, Kathy Acker set out on a brilliant journey exploring the boundaries of modern fiction that has since made her one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation.

From the start, Kathy Acker created a brash and sexy female voice as shocking as the worlds she invokes. In Childlike Life she steps into the biography of a Mississippi murderess who falls in love with a famous lawyer. In I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac she takes a man capable of deceiving both sexes as her lover in a dreamy odyssey through the labyrinth of her desires. In The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec is a woman starved for love and sex.

All of Acker's obsessions — the frenzy of sexual desire, the search for identity, the invention of a new literary language — are present here with a savage purity and raw energy matched only rarely in her later works.

"Synopsis" by Firebrand,

The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula by the Black Tarantula; I Dreamt I Was a Nymphomaniac; The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec