9780802119261
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
ISBN 13: 9780802119261
Publisher: Grove Pr
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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A 50th anniversary edition of the influential 20th-century work finds an unmoored addict making his way through a nightmarish wasteland, a tale that offers insight into period taboos. By the author of
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"At the International Writers' Conference in Edinburgh...I said that in thinking over the novels of the last few years, I was struck by the fact that the only ones that had not simply given me pleasure but interested me had been those of Burroughs and Nabokov....I am quoted as saying that NAKED LUNCH is the most important novel of the age, of the epoch, of the century....The result, of course, is a disparagement of Burroughs, because if NAKED LUNCH is proclaimed as the masterpiece of the century, then it is easily found wanting....The phenomenon of repetition, gives rise to boredom; many readers complain that they cannot get through NAKED LUNCH. And/or that they find it disgusting. It IS disgusting and sometimes tiresome, often in the same places....Like Swift, Burroughs has irritable nerves and something of the crafty temperament of the inventor....Yet what saves NAKED LUNCH is not a literary ancestor but humour. Burroughs' humour is peculiarly American, at once broad and sly."
Mary McCarthy, Encounter, April 1963
Review:"Here is an American novelist writing in an existentialist idiom that proclaims the essential absurdity of life and reduces to to a flash series of cruel and often pointless charades. Time and place and plot and characters are all missing; yet none of this matters, by all the standards invoked. What matters, as in all abstract art, are the effects created, and Burroughs' effects are stunning. He is a writer of rare power....This paean to nihilism strikes me as more than the caterwaulings of a long-time addict, writing about addicts, for addicts and the beatnik fringe, which has embraced Burroughs as a genius."
Richard Kluger, New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 11/25/1962
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NAKED LUNCH 50th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover in Slipcase) (ISBN: 9780802119261) Burroughs, William S. Quantity Available: 1
Book Description: GROVE PRESS, New York, 2009. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 1st Edition. HB - 1st. Thus - New in Slipcase (Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap) - Burroughs's literary experiment mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. Bookseller Inventory # 004412 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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Naked Lunch - 50th Anniversary Edition ( The Restored Text ) (ISBN: 9780802119261) Burroughs, William S. Quantity Available: 1
Book Description: Grove Press 1959 / 2009, New York, 2009. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Thus, Later printing. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2 x 1-1/4 ". 2009 Hardcover Book in Hard Card Slipcase, STILL SEALED in original publisher's shrinkwrap . First Edition Thus, 9th Prining of this, the 50th anniversary restored edition . BRAND NEW from 2009 publisher . Never opened, Never owned , Never marked . Excellent Gift Giving quality . 299 pages in decorative violet and white boards with black-colored page edges . William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch is one of the most important and influential novels of the twentieth century . This deluxe fiftieth-anniversary edition features the restored text, edited by Jame Grauerholz and Barry Miles, faithful to Burrough's original composition, as well as an insightful afterword by critic David Ulin . "A masterpiece . A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire." - Newsweek . Joan Didion says of this book that " Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny serious, poetic, indelibly American." . This is the deluxe , fully restored 50th anniversary of the legendary, once so subversive it couldn't be published, 1959 novel by the friend and confidante of the beat poet and authors and beloved of beats himself, Willy Lee, Mr. William S. Burroughs . junkie, or junky . and 20th century author extraordinaire . In his long lifetime he saw his work censored, suppressed, subject to court battle, and, finally, celebrated . This is the real " Naked Lunch . 50th Anniversary Edition ( The Restored Text ) " by William Burroughs, edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles, with afterword by David Ulin . 2009 Hardcover Book in Slipcase, published by Grove Press, New York . *** Securely packed for Safe delivery ~ Shipping safely Worldwide, since 1965 ***. Bookseller Inventory # 6843 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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