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by Kathy Acker (Author) "Never having known a mother, her mother had died when Janey was a year old, Janey depended on her father for everything and regarded her..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st Evergreen Ed edition (11 Jan 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 080213193X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802131935
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,318 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Janey Smith keeps a journal of her dreams and experiences as she is rejected by her father, kidnapped by thieves, and sold into prostitution.
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8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Tries too hard to be controversial, 30 Oct 2003
'Blood and Guts...' isn't so much a novel as a loose mix of novel, poetry and artwork. It's form is in many ways groundbreaking. Unfortunately, as with many texts that try to subvert readers' expectations and experiment with form/language etc., a plot has been decreed unneccessary.

This text is meant to provoke shock, outrage and disgust in many, but many texts that can provoke these extreme emotions will affect readers profoundly and stay with them for a long time. This will just make most people think 'what was the point of that?'

The violence, sex and above all the swearing are just gratuitous and largely ineffective. I'm no prude, but when every other word is an obscenity, the words lose their power. This book is a tedious, overblown 'look at me, aren't I provocative?' exercise. The only reason to read it is the novelty value of having read one of the worst novels of all time.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars blood and guts in high school - kathy acker, 15 Mar 2006
I read this novel by kathy acker when it first appeared on the scene in the 1980's, not only did i revel in the literary style of this new yorkist, rampant, angst female, in this her first work, she seemed to sum up the feelings of the age, of the post punk feminist free woman, and how still she suffered within the dominated world of the greedy selfish money-making, hypocrital, self made man-machine, pure genuis pure acker
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5.0 out of 5 stars Have fun. Read a book, 14 Aug 1996
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First of all , this is not just a book ,this we have it's also a map toa trip that never happens. Was the persian slave trader real , or was it on Janie's mind? We'll never know for sure , but it's a devastating experience to read how people can need so desperatly the love they will never achieve. I am an esceptic reader , and so i suspect of the real pretension of the writer , but as a book (or whatever...) it caused a major impression on me.I guess we all got a little Janie inside of us.
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