The Place of Dead Roads - Hardcover

Burroughs, William S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0030632560 ISBN 13: 9780030632563

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983

Synopsis

William Seward Hall, who writes westerns under the name of Kim Carsons--a man with a mission to reorganize Earth into a more meaningful world--takes part in a shoot-out in the Boulder, Colorado, cemetery

About this title

About the Author:

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American author, painter, and spoken-word performer who has had a wide-ranging influence on American culture. Jack Kerouac called him the ''greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.'' Norman Mailer declared him ''the only American writer who may be conceivably possessed by genius.'' A postmodernist and a key figure of the beat generation, he focused his art on a relentless subversion of the moral, political, and economic conventions of modern American society, as reflected in his often darkly humorous and sardonic satire. He wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six short-story collections, and four collections of essays. No fewer than five books of his interviews and correspondence have been published. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians and made many appearances in films. He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983 and in the following year was appointed to the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

Review:

''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 is -- sculpted 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

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0030632560
• ISBN 13: 9780030632563
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306