Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Burroughs, William S

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9781433259678: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

ISBN 10: 1433259672 ISBN 13: 9781433259678

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2009

Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.

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Review:

‘A true genius and first mythographer of the mid-twentieth century, William Burroughs is the lineal successor to James Joyce. “Naked Lunch” is a banquet you will never forget.’ JG Ballard

‘Prophesied with unerring accuracy the hideous modes that human behaviour would assume in the post-apocalyptic second half of the twentieth century. “Naked Lunch” is essential reading for anyone who maintains any illusions about anything.’ Will Self

‘William Burroughs broadened people’s conception of what makes humanity. In that way, he really was an American hero, a hero writer, and also just a great man.’ Lou Reed

‘A delirious exploration of sexual violence through the art of collage.’ Time Out

From the Back Cover:

"Not a novel but a booty bought back from a nightmare, a coldly implacable look at the dark side of our nature."
NEW YORK TIMES

'Look down at my filthy trousers, haven't been changed in months... The days glide by strung on a syringe with a long thread of blood.. I am forgetting sex and all the sharp pleasures of the body – a grey, junk-bound ghost. The Spanish boys call me El Hombre Invisible – The Invisible Man...'

"A roller-coaster ride through hell, a safari to the strangest people of the strangest planet, ourselves... After the anaemic fare of contemporary fiction, sit back and gorge yourself on this feast of a novel."
J.G.BALLARD

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