The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats, featuring for the first time the restored text, all the accompanying essays, and newly discovered material from the original manuscript. Revitalised with a cool new jacket and an anecdote-packed P.S. Section. Welcome to Interzone! Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Check yourself into the hospital where Dr Benway works -- but don't expect adrenalin if you need it (the night porter shot it up for kicks). Meet Dr 'Fingers' Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid, and his greatest creation, 'The Complete American De-anxietized Man', a marvel of invasive psychiatry who has been reduced to nothing but a spinal cord. Told by an Ivy League-educated narcotics addict, 'Naked Lunch' juxtaposes two journeys: the narrator's physical progress from America to North Africa, via Mexico, and a terrifying descent into his own altered consciousness. In this 'Interzone', loosely based on Burroughs' temporary home of Tangier, sex, drugs and murder are the most basic of commodities, and the basest desires have become completely banal. Provocative, influential, morbidly fascinating and mordantly funny, 'Naked Lunch' takes us on an exhilarating ride through the darkest recesses of the human psyche -- a ride which stunned the literary world when first published in the repressed 1950s, and is still guaranteed to epater more than a few bourgeois. Over forty years since first publication, Burroughs scholar Barry Miles and Burroughs' longtime editor James Grauerholz have compiled this definitive restored text, correcting numerous errors that have accumulated over the years, and incorporating all of Burroughs' notes and accompanying essays. Most exciting of all, this edition includes an appendix of newly discovered, never before seen material -- including alternate drafts from the original manuscript and letters from Burroughs' private correspondence.

Naked Lunch : The Restored Text

Literature & Fiction

William Burroughs

Contemporary

Harperperennial

Arrow 2010 trade edition paperback, new In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Soft Machine

Fourth Estate

The Naked Lunch

Classics

Corgi

In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’s grand cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Only Burroughs could make such a nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of ad men and con men whose deceitful language has spread like an incurable disease be at once so frightening and so enthralling.

The Ticket That Exploded

Literary

Corgi Books

Nova Express takes William S. Burroughs’s nightmarish future one step beyond The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova criminals have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It’s up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word-and-imagery machine of these control addicts” before it’s too late.

Nova express

Panther

A celebration of Anti-Establishment Literature of the 1950s! Includes Kingsley Amis, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Alan Ginsberg and many others!

The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men

Allen GINSBERG

Anatole Broyard

Chandler Brossard

Carl Solomon

jack-kerouac

J.P.Donleavy

History & Criticism

Citadel Press

New with pristine dust cover, pages unmarked, binding tight. Unread new condition.

Cairo: Tales of the City (Chronicles Abroad)

Beryl Markham

naguib-mahfouz

Alifa Rifaat

Lawrence of Arabia

William Thackeray

Michael. Palin

Short Stories & Anthologies

Chronicle Books LLC.

A Guide to Weather

Watching the changing skies can be both peaceful and a perplexing one. What caused that beautiful cloud formation? Whatever your interests - nature, aviation, sailing, hiking - Weather will help you recognize and interpret weather signs each day, and enhance your knowledge of the natural world.

Science & Math

Environment

Fog City Press

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