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Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir
This major collection of William Burroughs' letters gives an unprecedented insight into one of America's most incisive and influential writers, at a time when his work was at its most experimental and his life entered a new era of creativity. William Burroughs' life was often as extreme as his prose. Th ...Show more
Soft Machine by Burroughs William S
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The first novel in William Burroughs' anarchic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. A world populated by hanged soldiers, North African street urchins, addicted narcotics agents, Spanish rent boys, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history or the laboratories of science - Burroughs was truly ...Show more
The Finger (Mini Modern Classics) by William S. Burroughs
$2.50 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
'He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.' A deliberately severed finger, a junky's Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamou ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
$22.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | 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
The Wild Boys : A book of the dead by William S. Burroughs
$24.99 AUD
Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: WB
In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees ...Show more
Yage Letters by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters- a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he jo ...Show more