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Cities of the Red NightISBN 0030615216 (0-03-061521-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities of the Red Night: A Novel'Book summary: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 and his final novel, The Western Plains.
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Exterminator!ISBN 0140050035 (0-14-005003-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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InterzoneISBN 0140094512 (0-14-009451-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Interzone'Book summary:[via]In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations of style in literary history.
Burroughs's life during this period is limned in a startling collection of short stories, autobiographical sketches, letters, and diary entries, all of which showcase his trademark mordant humor, while delineating the addictions to drugs and sex that are the central metaphors of his work. But it is the extraordinary "WORD," a long, sexually wild and deliberately offensive tirade, that blends confession, routine, and fantasy and marks the true turning point of Burroughs as a writer-the breakthrough of his own characteristic voice that will find its full realization in Naked Lunch. James Grauerholz's incisive introduction sets the scene for this series of pieces, guiding the reader through Burroughs's literary evolution from the precise, laconic, and deadpan writer of Junky and Queer to the radical, uncompromising seer of Naked Lunch. Interzone is an indispensable addition to the canon of his works.
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The Job: Interviews with William S. BurroughsISBN 0140118829 (0-14-011882-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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JunkyISBN 0140043519 (0-14-004351-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Junky'Book summary:Burroughs' tale of Life as a Junky [via]
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. BurroughsISBN 0006552188 (0-00-655218-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs'Book summary:The journal of the last months of William Burroughs' life. 20 November 1996: 'Well, it's time for my Ovaltine and a long good night.' Burroughs died in 1997, after a lifetime of notoriety. The granddaddy of the Beats, druggy, dangerous and bleak, author of thirteen controversial, shocking novels. In his final years, he was writing only in his journals. The last nine months of his diaries are here in 'Last Words', and they form a complex, rarely seen, personal portrait of Burroughs at the end of his life, coming to terms with ageing and death. Although well into his eighties, the man we see is nevertheless the same old Burroughs, still riling against the Establishment, still contemptuous of the state of the human race, still shocking, bleak and very funny. The diaries are full of anecdotes and memories, entries on the joys of housekeeping, dealing with doctors, shooting a video with U2, musings on his beloved cats, drug-taking and government cover-ups. These journals contain some of the most brutally personal prose Burroughs has ever written. The deaths of his friends, Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary, provide a window onto the preparations he was making for his own death -- a quest for absolution marked by a profound sense of guilt and loss. [via]
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Softcover, Zondervan - Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs: ISBN 0007128797 (0-00-712879-7)
Softcover, Zondervan - Last Words : The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs: ISBN 0002261138 (0-00-226113-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs: ISBN 0006552188 (0-00-655218-8)
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The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959: Book 2ISBN 0140094520 (0-14-009452-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Letters of William S. Burroughs: Book 2ISBN 0140094539 (0-14-009453-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Mr. Burroughs RecommendsISBN 0140140441 (0-14-014044-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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My EducationISBN 0140094547 (0-14-009454-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Education'Book summary:In his latest book, Burroughs pushes into new territory, once again committing the unspeakable crime of questioning the reality structure. Dreams, always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs' works, here become a direct and powerful force. My Education, direct, honest, humorous and subversive, is a truly original work. [via]
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Naked LunchISBN 0007115199 (0-00-711519-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Naked Lunch : The Restored TextISBN 0007204442 (0-00-720444-2)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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The Place of Dead RoadsISBN 0030036844 (0-03-003684-4)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel'Book summary: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 Lands.
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QueerISBN 0140083898 (0-14-008389-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queer'Book summary:For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.[via]In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.
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Strange Amazing and Mysterious PlacesISBN 0002551098 (0-00-255109-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Western LandsISBN 0140094563 (0-14-009456-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Western Lands'Book summary: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. [via]
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Word Virus : The William S. Burroughs ReaderISBN 0006552145 (0-00-655214-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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