Cities of the Red Night

William S. Burroughs

ISBN 10: 0030589983 / ISBN 13: 9780030589980

Published by Holt,Rinehart and Winston, 1981

About this Item

Number 184 of 500 specially produced first editions signed by Burroughs to title page. House in slipcase. Sun fading of gold gilt to spine otherwise near fine and a very attractive clean copy.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1740271431872

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cities of the Red Night
• Publisher: Holt,Rinehart and Winston
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0030589983
• ISBN 13: 9780030589980
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Several familiar Burroughs characters--Dr. Benway, Clem Snide, the Wild Boys--and a number of newly conceived characters are enmeshed in a tale centering on the revolutionary intrigues of Captain Mission, an eighteenth-century pirate

About the Author

William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.