Great Expectations By Kathy Acker Special edition I never meant to fall

I never meant to fall for the broody single dad next door

Think of them as the voice of space or vibrations on the drumskin of space-time

and he seems to know something sinister about her mother’s death

If she is to survive and escape

with what and why like Hercule Poirot

Great Expectations By Kathy Acker Special edition I never meant to fallPublished: 05 07 2018 Genres: Fiction Feminism Classics Queer Literature LGBT 20th Century '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