New York City in 1979 - Penguin Modern (Kathy Acker, Anne Turyn (photographer (expression))) (9780241338896)

INTENSE SEXUAL DESIRE IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLDA tale of art, sex, blood, junkies and whores in New Yorks underground, from cult literary icon Kathy AckerPenguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson, essays radical and inspiring, poems moving and disturbing, stories surreal and fabulous, taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New Yorks underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.