The Western Lands Paperback - 1988

Name: The Western Lands
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Author: Burroughs, William S.
ISBN: 9780140094565

by William S. Burroughs

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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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From the legendary author of Naked Lunch, the conclusion of his trilogy that includes Cities of the Red Night and Palace of Dead Roads

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

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Title The Western Lands
Author William S. Burroughs
Binding Paperback
Edition [ Edition: Repri
Pages 272
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Publication date 1988-12-07
ISBN 9780140094565 / 0140094563
Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
Dimensions 7.76 x 5.04 x 0.54 in (19.71 x 12.80 x 1.37 cm)
Age range 18 to UP years
Grade levels 13 - UP
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88017455
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Publishers Weekly, 10/07/1988, Page 0

About the author

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century". His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays including Naked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, My Education, and Interzone.