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Naked Lunch (the restored text) by William S. Burroughs
Category: Fiction | Series: Perennial Fiction Promotion Ser.
The unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict. He travels from New York to Tangiers, then into The Interzone, a nightmarish modern urban wasteland in which the forces of good & evil vie for control of the individual & all of humanity.
Nova Express by William S. Burroughs
Category: Fiction
The diabolical Nova Criminals now include the nightmarish characters of Sammy the Butcher, Iron Claws, Izzy the Push and the Brown Artist, and are poised to wreak untold destruction on the world with their new-found control. Only Inspector Lee of the Nova Police has any chance of stopping them, by disma ...Show more
Nova Express - The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs dep ...Show more
Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with Cities of the Red Night and The Western La ...Show more
Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-gro ...Show more
The Burroughs File by William S. Burroughs
Category: Biography
Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator ofNaked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including com ...Show more
The Finger (Mini Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamou ...Show more
The Job - Interviews with William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs; Daniel Odier
Category: Fiction
William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Joblays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories a ...Show more
The Job : Interviews with William S. Burroughs by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs' work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, "The Job" lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with storie ...Show more
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destructi ...Show more