The Ticket That Exploded

William S. Burroughs

ISBN 10: 0394623649 / ISBN 13: 9780394623641

Published by Grove Press, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ticket That Exploded
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394623649
• ISBN 13: 9780394623641
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: FIRST THUS.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

The Burroughs’ book which, with ‘The Soft Machine’ and ‘Nova Express’, completes the classic ‘Cut-Up Trilogy’.

‘Earth was under attack, but by whom? The Insect People of Minraud? The Nova Mob? The “White Hunters”? Representatives of Hassan i Sabbah or the White Goddess?’

‘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 is the history of the word – and the word 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’.

Review

‘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 hardcore pornography.’ Spectator

‘His Swiftian vision of a processed, pre-packaged life, a kind of electro-chemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror.’ Playboy