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Interzone Paperback - 1990
by Burroughs, William S
- Used
First Naked Lunch, Burroughs's original manuscript entitled Interzone includes a long and brilliant section known as "WORD". This previously unpublished text is the highlight of Interzone.
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Details
- Title Interzone
- Author Burroughs, William S
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Subsequent
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 194
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Publication date 1990-02-01
- Features Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 8528866-6
- ISBN 9780140094510 / 0140094512
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.08 x 0.49 in (19.66 x 12.90 x 1.24 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89038512
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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Summary
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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