Ticket That Exploded (Calderbooks) - Softcover

Burroughs, William S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714540722 ISBN 13: 9780714540726

Publisher: John Calder, 1985

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

William Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1914. Immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s -- notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- he already had an underground reputation before the appearance of his first important book, 'Naked Lunch'. William Burroughs died in 1997.

Review:

'The fold-in technique gives excellent comic and satiric results!cleverly combines the raw energy of lowbrow spy- and science fiction with the brutal unfamiliarity of hardcore pornography.' Spectator 'His Swiftian vision of a processed, pre-packaged life, a kind of electro-chemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror.' Playboy

About this edition

• Publisher: John Calder
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0714540722
• ISBN 13: 9780714540726
• Binding: Paperback