Acher's Life and Death

Acher's writing is impelled by contradictory needs, the need to survive through writing, and the need to be nothing. She sometimes gets the sense of a writer self-harming by way of torturing her own surrogates. Unsurprisingly, these novels never brought in a lot of money. The lifetime American sales for Blood and Guts amount to 38,089 copies. After 1981, she didn't need them to. Like her new surrogate, Pip, Kathy came into a fortune.