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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, had come to each of them and confessed; Kerou ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time s ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
13.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld o ...Show more
Junky by William S Burroughs
24.95 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Depicts the addict's life: his hallucinations, his ghostly noctural wanderings, his strange sexuality and his hunger for the needle.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats: revitalised with a cool new jacket. WELCOME TO INTERZONE...Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcotics agent in the business. Attend international playboy A.J.'s annual party, where the punch is to be treated with ...Show more
Naked Lunch (the restored text) by William S. Burroughs
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Perennial Fiction Promotion Ser.
The unnerving tale of a monumental descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict. He travels from New York to Tangiers, then into The Interzone, a nightmarish modern urban wasteland in which the forces of good & evil vie for control of the individual & all of humanity.
Nova Express - The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs dep ...Show more
Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs
30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-gro ...Show more
Sidetripping (American Remainders) by Charles Gatewood; William S. Burroughs; Hunter S. Thompson (Contribution by)
29.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Photography Library Ser.
A first hand account of '60s and '70s counterculture seen through the eyes of pioneering photographer Charles Gatewood and legendary scribe William S. Burroughs. Chronicling the grotesque, surreal, and liberated American underground, Gatewood and Burroughs created a lasting, disturbing, and engaging por ...Show more
The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. The book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising ...Show more
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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