A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: "
Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative." -Catherine Texier, author of
Victorine
Kathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in
Literal Madness, "speaks to us out of a delightful mock-naivete 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).
"There's a haunting method to Acker's 'madness': a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion." -
Kirkus Reviews
