Cities of the Red Night - Couverture souple

Burroughs, William S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141189932 ISBN 13 : 9780141189932

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2010

Synopsis

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilogy continued in The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands, William Burroughs sharply satirizes modern society in a poetic and shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Intends to satirize modern society in a poetic story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141189932
• ISBN 13: 9780141189932
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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