Naked Lunch - The Restored Text

A stunning clothbound edition of William S. Burroughs''s cult classic, designed by the acclaimed Coralie-Bickford Smith. br>br>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.br>br>''A masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire'' Newsweekbr>br> ''Naked Lunch is a banquet you will never forget'' J. G. Ballard>

Product details

• Authors: William S Burroughs, William S. Burroughs
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9780241284636
• ISBN: 978-0-241-28463-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics; Penguin Classics; Penguin Clothbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, psyche; New York; Tangier; art; music; film; media, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary