Literal Madness

ACKER,K

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Author
ACKER,K
Publish Date
01/01/1994
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
GROVE
Subtitle
Kathy Goes to Haiti - My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini - Florida
Number of Pages
352
ISBN-10
0802131565
ISBN-13
9780802131560
citemno
044147
Edition
Reprint
SKU
9780802131560

Description

Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, “Speaks to us out of a delightful mock-na’veté that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined” (Los Angeles Times).
My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini – wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bronté sisters – is a “scathing commentary on false values in art” (The Hartford Courant)
In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves “a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials.” (Booklist)