Literal Madness

A collection of three novels from the experimental feminist writer: 'Literal Madness is Acker at her most powerful, disturbing, and provocative.' -Catherine Texier, author of VictorineKathy Goes to Haiti, the first of three novels in Literal Madness, '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' (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 'scathing commentary on false values in art' (The Hartford Courant).In the haunting Florida, Acker achieves 'a nearly telegraphic reduction of the Bogart-Bacall movie Key Largo to fatalistic, tough-guy essentials' (Booklist).'There's a haunting method to Acker's 'madness': a rough, raw, erudite wail against the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion.' -Kirkus Reviews