Uncorrected Proof from a Countercultural Icon
ACKER, Kathy. My Mother: Demonology. New York: Pantheon Books.1993.
8vo. Original light blue wrappers with title lettering in black to spine; loosely inserted red publisher's dust jacket; pp. [xii], 261, [10]; fine.
Uncorrected proof including a loosely inserted original dustjacket with black ink stamp to verso.
With her hyperbolic, intense marriage between hell and fantasy Acker still holds a legacy as one of the Postmodernism's most provocative acts. My Mother: Demonology is based loosely on the relationship between Georges Bataille and Colette Peignot and tells the tale of a woman facing a battle against choosing the fate of love or solitude, transporting the character back to her childhood memories. With its ability to link subjects as diverse as cult works of cinema and canonical literature using elements of radical fragmentation, My Mother: Demonology secures Acker's status as a transgressive icon.
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