The Place Of Dead Roads

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141976068

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The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs Pdf

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 the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom. Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466856615

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The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs Pdf

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.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141975719

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The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs Pdf

A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs's final novel is poignant and melancholic. Blending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and Mailer, The Western Lands confirms his status as one of America's greatest writers. The final novel of the trilogy containing Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads, this is a profound meditation on morality, loneliness, life and death.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466856608

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Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs Pdf

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.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780802121950

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The Adding Machine by William S. Burroughs Pdf

"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 about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust. He ruminates on science and the often dubious paths into which it seems intent on leading us, whether into outer or inner space. He reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cut-up" method, and discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and work. As satirist and parodist, William Burroughs has no peer, as these varied works, written over three decades, amply reveal.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267450

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Henry Holt
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0030036844

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The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs Pdf

Author : Joan Hawkins,Alex Wermer-Colan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253041364

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William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century by Joan Hawkins,Alex Wermer-Colan Pdf

William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs’ overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs’s Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and The Ticket That Exploded) remains the best-known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage. By cutting up, folding in, and splicing together newspapers, magazines, letters, book reviews, classical literature, audio recordings, photographs, and films, Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging countercultural archive. This collection includes previously unpublished work by Burroughs such as cut-ups of work written by his son, cut-ups of critical responses to his own work, collages on the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, excerpts from his dream journals, and some of the few diary entries that Burroughs wrote about his wife, Joan. William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century also features original essays, interviews, and discussions by established Burroughs scholars, respected artists, and people who encountered Burroughs. The essays consider Burroughs from a range of starting points—literary studies, media studies, popular culture, gender studies, post-colonialism, history, and geography. Ultimately, the collection situates Burroughs as a central artist and thinker of his time and considers his insights on political and social problems that have become even more dire in ours.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197184

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Word Virus by William S. Burroughs Pdf

With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious "routines" to the experimental cut-up novels to Cities of the Red Night and The Cat Inside. Beautifully edited and complemented by James Grauerholz's illuminating biographical essays, Word Virus charts Burroughs's major themes and places the work in the context of the life. It is an excellent tool for the scholar and a delight for the general reader. Throughout a career that spanned half of the twentieth century, William S. Burroughs managed continually to be a visionary among writers. When he died in 1997, the world of letters lost its most elegant outsider.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1187554452

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The place of dead roads by Anonim Pdf

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197221

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Nova Express by William S. Burroughs Pdf

The Soft Machine introduced us to the conditions of a universe where endemic lusts of the mind and body pray upon men, hook them, and turn them into beasts. Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs’s nightmarish futuristic tale one step further. The diabolical Nova Criminals—Sammy The Butcher, Green Tony, Iron Claws, The Brown Artist, Jacky Blue Note, Izzy The Push, to name only a few—have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It’s up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word and imagery machine of these “control addicts” before it’s too late. This surrealist novel is part sci-fi, part Swiftian parody, and always pure Burroughs.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197214

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The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs Pdf

In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197207

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The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs Pdf

In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’s grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Only Burroughs could make such a nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of ad men and con men whose deceitful language has spread like an incurable disease be at once so frightening and so enthralling.

Author : Kevin Brooks
Publisher : Chicken House
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781908435729

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The Road of the Dead by Kevin Brooks Pdf

Late one night, two brothers learn that their sister has died in the worst way imaginable. She's found strangled, hundreds of miles from home. Ruben is the smarter of the two, with a gift for getting into other people's hearts. Cole doesn't care if he lives or dies. Together they set out to find their own answers and retrace Rachel's final journey.

Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802197191

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The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs Pdf

The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.