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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs, William S Burroughs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast ...Show more
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats: revitalised with a cool new jacket. WELCOME TO INTERZONE...Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Attend international playboy A.J.'s annual party, where the punch is to be treated with ...Show more
Naked Lunch (the restored text) by William S. Burroughs
$16.95 AUD
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
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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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Burroughs William S
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Category: Fiction | Series: WB
A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of 'Naked Lunch'. This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries t ...Show more
Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the "Beat Generation". Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a rare glimpse into Burroughs' psyche, revealing his struggle with drug addiction, his confusion over his se ...Show more
Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This major collection of William Burroughs' letters gives an unprecedented insight into one of America's most incisive and influential writers, at a time when his work was at its most experimental and his life entered a new era of creativity. William Burroughs' life was often as extreme as his prose. Th ...Show more