The Soft Machine
The Restored Text
$34.22
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2014
Summary
For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, the first novel in Burroughs’ prophetic and revolutionary ‘cut-up trilogy’, now in a newly restored edition
With a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies - his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his skills to defeat a team of priests, who are using mind control to produce their own private slave race. Dead soldiers, African street urch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141189789 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141189789 |
| Author: | William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis. In his work and 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 recognized 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.
Oliver Harris
Oliver Harris is professor of American literature at Keele University and the editor of The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 (1993), Junky: The Definitive Text of “Junk” (2003), The Yage Letters Redux (2006), and Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2008). He has published articles on film noir, the epistolary, and Beat Generation writing, and the book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination (2003). He is currently co-editing Naked Lunch@50: Anniversary Essays (2009) and working on a new twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Queer (forthcoming in 2010).
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