In Memoriam to Identity

In this characteristically sexy, daring, and hyperliterate novel, Kathy Acker interweaves the stories of three characters who share the same tragic flaw: a predilection for doomed, obsessive love. Rimbaud, the delinquent symbolist prodigy, is deserted by his lover Verlaine time and time again. Airplane takes a job dancing at Fun City, the seventh tier of the sex industry, in order to support her good-for-nothing boyfriend. And Capitol feels alive only when she's having sex with her brother, Quentin. In Memoriam to Identity is at once a revelatory addition to, and an irreverent critique of, the literature of decadence and self-destruction.

• | Author: Kathy Acker
• | Publisher: Grove Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 13, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 080213579X
• | ISBN-13: 9780802135797