Blood and guts in high school, plus two

Wild and erratic use of words and storytelling as artistic media in the unique voice of Kathy Acker. This book contains three books - two novels and a short story. Blood & Guts in High School stands out, a perfect masterpiece of Acker's sex, violence and abrupt punk storytelling. It is a wonderful collage of drawings, text, plays, maps, and is an experience outside of reading (culminating in a magnificent dream-wander through the desert for the protagonist and Jean Genet). Great Expectations is cutting, a winding and unpredictable alternative to the Dickens story; My Death, My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini is sharp-witted and less dark, and includes multiple retelling of the Irish revolution via Macbeth.