The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text - Softcover

Burroughs, William S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802122094 ISBN 13: 9780802122094

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2014

Synopsis

Visionary and majestic, "The Ticket that Exploded" is the grand climax to Burroughs's "cut-up trilogy." The story begun in the previous books escalates to its conclusions as Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. In "The Ticket that Exploded," Burroughs paints an at once frightening and enthralling nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of ad men and con men whose deceitful language has spread like an incurable disease. This revised and rationalized edition, edited by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, incorporates a new introduction and appendices, which make it the definitive edition of the text.

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Review:

"In Mr. Burroughs's hands writing reverts to acts of magic, as though he were making some enormous infernal encyclopedia of all the black impulses and acts that, once made, would shut away the fiends forever."--The New York Times

"It is in books like The Ticket that Exploded that Burroughs seems to revel in a new medium for its own sake--a medium totally fantastic, spaceless, timeless, in which the normal sentence is fractured, the cosmic tries to push its way through bawdry, and the author shakes the reader as a dog shakes a rat."--Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange

"[Burroughs's] Swiftian vision of a processed, pre-packaged life, a kind of electro-chemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror."--Playboy

"The power of his imagination often carries his comedy far into the buried recesses of the psyche."--The New Republic

About the Author:

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was the author of numerous novels, including "Junky," "Queer""Naked Lunch," "Nova Express," "The Ticket That Exploded," "The Soft Machine," and "The Wild Boys." He is considered one of the twentieth century's most radical, innovative, and influential writers, and a founding member of the Beat Generation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0802122094
• ISBN 13: 9780802122094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Harris Professor Oliver