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The Place of Dead Roads Author: William Burroughs

ISBN: 9780007341931 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 268 Published: 31 August 2010 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.700 x 13.000 x 2.4 Description: Burroughs' classic, surreal reworking of the myth of the Old West.

William Burroughs' 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, who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America.

With a narrative of fantastical proportions and a rich, dry, growling humour, The Place of Dead Roads continues Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs ' with a style utterly unique in 20th century literature.

About the Author

William Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1914. A Harvard drop-out, Burroughs lived in Mexico, Tangier and the UK, and was a heroin addict for many years. Immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s - notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg - he already had an underground reputation before the appear...

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