The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs (English) Paperback Book

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Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality, loneliness, nuclear peril, and the inextinguishable hope for life after death.

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The Western Land is legendary Beat writer William S. Burrough's profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on morality, loneliness, life, and death -- a Book of the Dead for the nuclear age. Burrough's visionary power, his comic genius, and his unerring ability to crack the codes that make up the life of this century are undimished. -- J.G. Ballard, Washington Post Book World

Author Biography

William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914. He is best-known work is 1959's "Naked Lunch"--which became the focus of a landmark 1962 Supreme Court decision that helped eliminate literary censorship in the United States. Described by Norman Mailer as one of America's few writers genuinely "possessed by genius," he died in 1997. His many other works include "Junky" and "The Place of Dead Roads" (Picador).

Details ISBN0140094563 Author William S. Burroughs Short Title WESTERN LANDS Pages 272 Publisher Penguin Books Language English ISBN-10 0140094563 ISBN-13 9780140094565 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1988 Publication Date 1988-12-31 Residence US Birth 1914 Death 1997 Imprint Penguin Books DOI 10.1604/9780140094565 Audience General/Trade We've got this

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