The Ticket That Exploded - Softcover

Burroughs, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802151507 ISBN 13: 9780802151506

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

Synopsis

<div>In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs&#8217;s grand &#147;cut-up&#8221; trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Only Burroughs could make such a nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of ad men and con men whose deceitful language has spread like an incurable disease be at once so frightening and so enthralling.</div>

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Review

"He has a savage sense of comedy and a cleverly educated ear for
the haunting casual phrase." -- The Scotsman

"The fold-in technique gives excellent comic and satiric results
... cleverly combines the raw energy of lowbrow `spy' and `science' fiction
with the brutal unfamiliarity of `hard core' pornography."
-- Spectator

From the Back Cover

‘Language is the worn coin pressed silently into my hand. Inspector J. Lee of the Nova Police knew them by many names – but he only knew one way to stop them...The only weapon was silence: silence to say goodbye – by silence to say good. "You see, gentlemen, what we call history of the world – and the world is a killer virus...”’

A prophetic vision of a world in which technology has gone haywire, 'The Ticket that Exploded' completes Burroughs’ classic ‘Cut-Up Trilogy’.

'Lee, Kiki, the Nova Police, the Mugwumps, Mr Bradley, Mr Martin – the gang's all here in the novel where Burroughs' cut-up technique came on line. As filthy and boggling as it was in 1968 – would he get away with it today?' Time Out

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802151507
• ISBN 13: 9780802151506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 217