Great ExpectationsGreat Expectations by Kathy Acker features Pip switching identities, sexes, and centuries in a brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex, and art. 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