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Great expectations

Eileen Myles

1982128 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1982
first published
  • 1982Re/Search Productions · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780940642010
  • 1982Grove Press · 128 pagesISBN 9780802131553
  • 1983Grove Press · 128 pages · ENGISBN 9780394534978
  • 2018Penguin Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9780241352151
  • 2018Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · ENGISBN 9780802146588
  • 2018Penguin Books, Limited · 144 pages · ENGISBN 9780241352144
  • 2019Grove Press · 144 pages · ENGISBN 9780802128546
  • 2020Malas Tierras Editorial · 160 pagesISBN 9788412003079

" ... At the center of this form-shifting narrative, Acker's protagonist collects an inheritance following her mother's suicide, which compels her to revisit and reinterpret traumatic scenes from the past. Switching perspectives, identities, genders, and centuries, the speaker lustily ransacks world literature to celebrate and challenge the discourse around art, love, life, and death"--Provided by publisher.

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