Great expectations

A rousing, experimental, avant-garde novel, considered Kathy Acker´s greatest achievement, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. The Penguin Modern Classic of Blood and Guts in High School has been a runaway smash, generating tons of publicity in conjunction with the new Chris Kraus biography of Acker ´Kathy Acker is the acme of the self-invented, self-mythologising counterculture superstar, a foul-mouthed Beat biker and bodybuilder, child of the Marquis de Sade and Wild Bill Burroughs´ Olivia Laing