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  • Published: 29 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141976068
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

The Place of Dead Roads





Sci-fi meets the Old West in this obscene and hilarious novel from Naked Lunch author and Beat icon William S. Burroughs

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.

  • Published: 29 January 2015
  • ISBN: 9780141976068
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

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