Rip-Off Red, Girl Detective and the Burning Bombing of America

by Kathy Acker

Book Overview

Recently discovered and never before published, these two short novels were written in the early 1970s, at the beginning of Kathy Acker's writing career. Rip-off Red reads as a kind of Raymond Chandler for bad girls, as Acker's typical literary playfulness transforms the genre conventions of detective fiction into a book that is simultaneously a mystery and a personal, raunchy, and politically astute account of life in New York City. The Burning Bombing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802139205
• ISBN13: 9780802139207
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"