Great Expectations by Kathy Acker Groundswell Speaker 2024 While confined to a series

While confined to a series of hospital wards

illness and fear

In the process

out to have fun

Greeted as a masterpiece when it was published in 1967

Great Expectations by Kathy Acker Groundswell Speaker 2024 While confined to a series'New York City is very peaceful and quiet, and the pale grey mists are slowly rising, to show me the world' Pip switches identities, sexes and centuries in this punk, fairytale reimagining of Charles Dickens's original Great Expectations. Both familiar and unfamiliar, our orphaned narrator is transplanted to New York City in the 1980s; becoming, by turns, a sailor, a pirate, a rebel and an outlaw, through adventures incorporating desire, creativity,