Two terrorists ponder the dangers of love and language in Kathy Acker’s “twisted re-creation of quest sagas and Bildungsroman and TV sitcoms” (Philadelphia Enquirer)
Kathy Acker (1944–1997) was an influential writer whose many books include Great Expectations; Don Quixote; Literal Madness; Empire of the Senseless; In Memoriam to Identity; My Mother: Demonology; Pussy, King of the Pirates; Portrait of an Eye; and Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America.