The Place of Dead Roads

ISBN-13: 9780141189796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 320 str.

William S Burroughs

Opis

By the author of 'Naked Lunch', this fantasy Western features a cast of notorious characters including the Crying Gun, the Priest and the Nihilistic Kid. It explores some of society's controlling forces - the Church, women, literature and drugs.

O autorze

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.