New York City in 1979

'INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD' A tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New York's underground, from cult literary icon Kathy Acker Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Product details

• Authors: Kathy Acker, Acker Kathy
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780241338896
• ISBN: 978-0-241-33889-6
• No. of pages: 64
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 162 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern; Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary