{"product_id":"don-quixote-by-kathy-acker","title":"Don Quixote by Kathy Acker","description":"\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003eBorn in 1948, avant-garde novelist Kathy Acker hung out in New York with the FLUXUS group and underground filmmakers in the '60s. At Brandies University she studied with Herbert Marcuse, following him to UC San Diego. Back in New York she studied with Jerome Rothenberg and hung out in the early punk scene while writing art criticism, book reviews and prose pieces. Her libretto, The Birth of a Poet, wad produced as an opera at the Brooklyn Academy of music. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003eThroughout the following decades Kathy Acker wrote thirteen novels, whose sexually explicit language, multiple personas, plagiarism and sheer linguistic inventiveness embodied a subversive sensibility. Her novels were described as everything from post-punk porn to post-punk feminism, first person narratives which combine detailed eroticism with detailed politics and what Acker called 'pop content'. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003eHere we have a copy of her scarce novel \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote. \u003c\/i\u003eAnother example of her visionary 'collage-novel' style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCover Illustration by Catherine Denvir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by Paladin, 1986\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Inscription on first page\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"sqsrte-large\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"details\" data-v-dfc13684=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Window Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58218858807644,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0897\/7059\/0556\/files\/WebsiteStockPhotos-05_7c3eb482-db1b-4b1f-a58e-02fe30e8b0d3.jpg?v=1783426125","url":"https:\/\/www.windowbooks.co.uk\/products\/don-quixote-by-kathy-acker","provider":"Window Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}