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narratives, slipstream, punk, postmodern, murder, sex, identity, women
Omnibus edition. Contains all 3 volumes of her trilogy: The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula (written under the pseudonym the Black Tarantula), I Dreamt I was a Nymphomaniac: Imagining! (written under the pseudonym the Black Tarantula), The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec (written under the pseudonym Toulouse Lautrec).
"By mixing together literal truths about herself with lies and other people's dreams Acker has created a personal textual analog to the late 20th-century information crisis. Her texts blur time and space, skipping from 18th-century France to 20th-century hotel rooms, splicing gender and sexuality. Acker's are the kind of books that change those who read them. You've been warned". --Richard Kadrey (in Covert Culture Sourcebook , 1993).
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