Blood and Guts in High School is a novel by Kathy Acker. It was written in the late 1970s and copyrighted in 1978. It traveled a complex and circuitous route to publication, before being officially released in 1984. It remains Acker's most popular and best-selling book. The novel is also considered a metafictional text, which is aware of its status as a fictional piece. The novel explores but simultaneously deconstructs the American politics of the time it was written and intercontinental history tying into the novel's subject of human trafficking, while being interspersed with sections of sexually detailed drawings, dream maps, symbolism and non-linear writing.
“For 2.000 years, you've had the nerve to tell women who we are.”
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
Context: For 2.000 years, you've had the nerve to tell women who we are. We use your words; we eat your food. Every way we get money has to be a crime. We are plagiarists, liars and criminals.
“Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.”
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Source: Blood and Guts in High School
“Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.”
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Source: Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
“IF THERE IS A GOD, GOD IS DISJUNCTION AND MADNESS.”
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
“Heart disease syphilis pregnancy”
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School (1978)
Kathy Acker book Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School. Editor Penguin UK, 2017. ISBN 0241302528.
