Synopses & Reviews
A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom.
The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with
Cities of the Red Night and
The Western Lands. William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914. His best-known book is 1959's Naked Lunch, which became the focus of a landmark 1962 Supreme Court decision that helped eliminate literary censorship in the United States. Described by Norman Mailer as one of America's few writers genuinely "possessed by genius," he died in 1997. His many other works include Junky and Cities of the Red Night.
In this typically bizarre and brillant novel, Burroughs gets things going with an old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of frontier times. From here, readers embark on a hyperkinetic adventure wherein a group of gunslingers, led by one Kim Carson, must fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night (and ends with The Western Lands).
"It's a comedy . . . A nightmare . . . Bosch-like visions, extraordinarily precise vivid visualizations . . . Outrageous ideas like mind bombs."Allen Ginsberg
"Powerful . . . A raging torrent of words and images . . . Burroughs, like Dalí, first draws from his insanity, then selects with reason. And what a master of the mother tongue he issculpted sentences, poetic prose, riffs that make you gasp in amazement . . . More accessible and murkily poetic than ever."Los Angeles Times Book Review
"One of the wildest rides into the Wild West, and other parts known and unknown, we will ever have."The Washington Post Book World
"A moving personal saga as well as a record of revolutionary vision."Chicago Tribune Book World
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"It's a comedy...a nightmare...Bosch-like visions, extraordinarily precise vivid visualizations...outrageous ideas like mind bombs." Allen Ginsberg
Review
"Powerful...a raging torrent of words and images...Burroughs, like Dali, first draws from his insanity, then selects with reason. And what a master of the mother tongue he is sculpted sentences, poetic prose, riffs that make you gasp in amazement....More accessible and murkily poetic than ever." Los Angeles Times Book Review
Review
"One of the wildest rides into the Wild West, and other parts known and unknown, we will ever have." The Washington Post Book World
Review
"A moving personal saga as well as a record of revolutionary vision." Chicago Tribune Book World
Synopsis
A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with Cities of the Red Night and The Western Lands.
Synopsis
A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom.
The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy with
Cities of the Red Night and
The Western Lands. About the Author
William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914. He is best-known work is 1959's
Naked Lunch—which became the focus of a landmark 1962 Supreme Court decision that helped eliminate literary censorship in the United States. Described by Norman Mailer as one of America's few writers genuinely "possessed by genius," he died in 1997. His many other works include
Junky and
Cities of the Red Night (Picador).