Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs - ISBN: 9780141189932
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Sex, drugs, mutants, and pirates collide in a shocking, chaotic adventure.

Cities of the Red Night

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    352 pages

  • Release Date

    3 March 2010

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Summary

The first part in a trilogy of novels, Cities of the Red Night satirizes modern society in a shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure. 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 …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141189932
ISBN-10:0141189932
Author:William S. Burroughs
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:3 March 2010
Weight:268g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 21mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

William S. Burroughs

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.

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