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Junky by William S. Burroughs
$12.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld o ...Show more
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
$39.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunchis an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, Naked Lunch's formal innovat ...Show more
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs, William S Burroughs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast ...Show more
Nova Express - The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs dep ...Show more
Rub Out the Words: Letters 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature
These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the "Beat Generation". Written mostly to Ginsberg or Kerouac, the letters provide a rare glimpse into Burroughs' psyche, revealing his struggle with drug addiction, his confusion over his se ...Show more
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics/Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destructi ...Show more
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