Place of Dead Roads - Softcover

Burroughs-williams

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ISBN 10: 0030036844 ISBN 13: 9780030036842

Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, 1985

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William Seward Hall, who writes westerns under the name of Kim Carsons--a man with a mission to reorganize Earth into a more meaningful world--takes part in a shoot-out in the Boulder, Colorado, cemetery

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"It's a comedy . . . a nightmare . . . Bosch-like visions, extraordinarily precise vivid visualizations . . . outrageous ideas like mind bombs."--Allen Ginsberg
"Powerful . . . a raging torrent of words and images . . . Burroughs, like Dali, first draws from his insanity, then selects with reason. And what a master of the mother tongue he is--sculpted sentences, poetic prose, riffs that make you gasp in amazement . . . More accessible and murkily poetic than ever."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"One of the wildest rides into the Wild West, and other parts known and unknown, we will ever have."--"The Washington Post Book World"
"A moving personal saga as well as a record of revolutionary vision."--"Chicago Tribune Book World"

It's a comedy . . . a nightmare . . . Bosch-like visions, extraordinarily precise vivid visualizations . . . outrageous ideas like mind bombs. "Allen Ginsberg"

Powerful . . . a raging torrent of words and images . . . Burroughs, like Dali, first draws from his insanity, then selects with reason. And what a master of the mother tongue he is--sculpted sentences, poetic prose, riffs that make you gasp in amazement . . . More accessible and murkily poetic than ever. "Los Angeles Times Book Review"

One of the wildest rides into the Wild West, and other parts known and unknown, we will ever have. "The Washington Post Book World"

A moving personal saga as well as a record of revolutionary vision. "Chicago Tribune Book World""

"It's a comedy . . . a nightmare . . . Bosch-like visions, extraordinarily precise vivid visualizations . . . outrageous ideas like mind bombs." --Allen Ginsberg

"Powerful . . . a raging torrent of words and images . . . Burroughs, like Dali, first draws from his insanity, then selects with reason. And what a master of the mother tongue he is--sculpted sentences, poetic prose, riffs that make you gasp in amazement . . . More accessible and murkily poetic than ever." --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"One of the wildest rides into the Wild West, and other parts known and unknown, we will ever have." --The Washington Post Book World

"A moving personal saga as well as a record of revolutionary vision." --Chicago Tribune Book World

About the Author:

William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.

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