Blood and Guts in High Schools
Plus two
- ISBN
- 0330281860
- Publisher
- Pan Books
- Published
- 1984
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 412
- Genre
- FIction
- Location
- O15
About the book
"Blood and Guts in High School" by Kathy Acker is a novel that uses experimental writing method, hand-drawn illustrations, creative adaptation, and dream maps to dissect female identity, trauma, and institutional oppression about a ten-year-old girl named Janey Smith who grows up in a cruel, abusive world. After being kidnapped by a gang in New York and locked away, Janey writes poems, draws pictures, and eventually escapes on a strange journey to Egypt. To tell the story, Acker mixes normal writing with drawings, maps, poetry, and parts copied from other famous books. It is a controversial, wild story that attacks how society, families, and powerful institutions treat young women.