Naked Lunch - The Restored Text

Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original. 'A masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire' Newsweek ' Naked Lunch is a banquet you will never forget' J. G. Ballard

About the author

William S. Burroughs

Summary

Presents a surreal novel. It is based on orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. It also features authors notes on the text and alternate drafts.

Product details

• Authors: William S Burroughs, William S. Burroughs
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2015
• EAN: 9780141189765
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118976-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; PENGUIN CLASSIC; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; PENGUIN CLASSIC
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, psyche; New York; Tangier; art; music; film; media, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary