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Adding Machine by William S Burroughs
Category: Cult Fiction
"Sheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining."--"Chicago Sun-Times" Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely ...Show more
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
Category: Fiction
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, had come to each of them and confessed; Kerou ...Show more
Cities of the Red Night by William S Burroughs
Category: Fiction
While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of "Naked Lunch" is the first of the trilogy with "The Places of the Dead Roads" ...Show more
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and, the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilo ...Show more
Dead Fingers Talk by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classic Fiction
First published in 1963 and representing Burroughs's literary breakthrough in the UK, Dead Fingers Talk is, in the words of Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, "a prophetic work of haunting power", and is perhaps the most commercial and accessible of his works. Combining new material with selections from N ...Show more
Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Steven Taylor (Editor)
Category: Biography Memoir
Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs' classic novelNaked Lunch. The visit coincided with the s ...Show more
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental nov ...Show more
Interzone by William S. Burroughs
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"Interzone" portrays the development of Burroughs' mature writing style by presenting a selection of pieces from the mid-1950s. His outrageous tone of voice represents the exorcism of four decades of oppressive sexual and social conditioning. Burroughs' close observations of humanity - its ugliness and ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Category: Fiction
Relates the highs and lows of mainlining smack, from initial heroin bliss to dependency, the horrors of cold turkey.
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: WB
'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life' William Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of "Naked Lunch", relates with unflinching realism the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an unab ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
Category: Popular Penguins | Series: Popular Penguins
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld o ...Show more