Beginning as a rewriting of Charles Dickens classic of the same name, Great Expectations spirals into Kathy Acker's most notorious work of textual appropriation and literary homage, creating "variations on classic literary texts . . . [which] subvert all of our traditional expectations concerning causality, ...
Jarvey, a twelve-year-old British boy, becomes lost again within the pages of the Grimoire, a powerful book of spells, where he must navigate complex worlds and battle new and more evil Midions.
Features the work by the twenty writers that Granta's judges - including novelists Edmund White and AM Homes - have selected as the most interesting young voices in American fiction.
