Cities of the Red Night

Burroughs, William S.

ISBN 10: 0714537845 / ISBN 13: 9780714537849

Published by John Calder (Publishers) Ltd., 1981

First UK edition. Hardback in dust jacket. 332pp. Half-cloth boards; illustrated endpapers. Jacket a little toned and creased to edges. Near fine. *** Burroughs' first full-length novel in a decade and the first book in what would become The Red Night Trilogy. Seller Inventory # 900545

Synopsis:

While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch; the first of the trilogy with The Place of the Dead Roads and his final novel 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 The Place of Dead Roads (Picador).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cities of the Red Night
Publisher: John Calder (Publishers) Ltd.
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: 1st Edition