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The Place of Dead Roads is a 1983 novel by William S. Burroughs, the second book of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night (1981) and concludes with The Western Lands (1987). It chronicles the story of a gay gunfighter in the American West , beginning with the gunfighter's death in 1899, incorporates contrasting themes and time travel episodes, and makes use of Burroughs ...
- William S. Burroughs
- 1983
Jan 1, 2001 · The Place of Dead Roads is an ironic psychedelic Western but it's also a prime example of lateral science fiction; and the ideas and conceits it shoots off have enough potential energy and promise to fuel dozens of ordinary SF and fantasy novels. Burroughs is a writer with an extremely generous mind who can afford to scatter dozens or hundreds of amazing and unique ideas throughout a text, any ...
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Mar 30, 2022 · The place of dead roads by Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Publication date 1984 Publisher London : Calder Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled
Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature. Read more. Details. All Editions. Share.
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A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of ‘Naked Lunch’. This surreal fable, set in America’s Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, who, with a succession of ...
Jan 29, 2015 · The Place of Dead Roads. William S. Burroughs. Penguin Books Limited, Jan 29, 2015 - Fiction - 320 pages. This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The ...
