Literal Madness

A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: "e;Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative."e; -Catherine Texier, author of VictorineKathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, "e;speaks to us out of a delightful mock-naivete that reminds one at times of the Dick and Jane readers rewritten as manuals for politics and sex . . . At once hilarious and terrifying, [it] has all the logic of a Caribbean tour and a nightmare combined"e; (Los Angeles Times).My Death My Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini-wherein, among other things, the late Italian filmmaker solves his own murder, with the help of, among others, Romeo, Juliet, and the Bronte sisters-is a "e;scathing commentary on false values in art"e; (The Hartford Courant).In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves "e;a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials"e; (Booklist)."e;There's a haunting method to Acker's 'madness': a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion."e; -Kirkus Reviews