Acker in full cut-up, mutinous, genre-destroying mode.

A pirate tale, a dream text, a feminist hallucination, a literary raid. It borrows, steals, rewrites and desecrates with intent, moving through girlhood, sex, violence, adventure, myth, abjection and revolt as if the novel itself has escaped lawful custody.

The book reads like a pirate radio transmission from the edge of literature: anti-realist, bodily, obscene, playful, furious, and structurally unstable in the best way. For readers of experimental fiction, queer/feminist punk writing, postmodernism, body writing, Burroughs, Cixous, Dodie Bellamy, Dennis Cooper, and anyone who wants fiction that feels less like a story and more like burning down a building.

Picador / Pan Macmillan Australia paperback. First published in the United States by Grove/Atlantic in 1996; first published in this Australian Picador edition in 1996. Printed in Australia by McPherson’s Printing Group. Good second-hand condition. Scarce Australian edition.