{"product_id":"blood-and-guts-in-high-school","title":"Blood and Guts in High School","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story of Janey, who lived in a locked room, where she found a scrap of paper and began to write down her life. It's a story of lust, sex, pain, youth, punk, anarchy, gangs, the city, feminism, America, Jean Genet and the prisons we create for ourselves. A heady, surreal mash-up of coming-of-age tale, prose, poetry, plagiarism and illustration, Kathy Acker's breakthrough 1984 novel caused huge controversy and made her an avant-garde literary icon.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Kathy Acker's untimely death, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlood and Guts in High School \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis published for the first time in Penguin Classics, acknowledging the profound impact she has had on our culture, and alongside the authors her work pulsates with the influence of: William S. Burroughs, Cervantes and Charles Dickens, among others.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Acker gives her work the power to mirror the reader's soul' — William S. Burroughs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Kathy Acker's writing is virtuoso, maddening, crazy, so sexy, so painful, and beaten out of a wild heart that nothing can tame. Acker is a landmark writer' — Jeanette Winterson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePenguin, 2017, 165pages.\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":62298240582019,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/0424\/5566\/files\/3_21.png?v=1785855984","url":"https:\/\/jotbookshop.com\/products\/blood-and-guts-in-high-school","provider":"Jot Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}