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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac & William Burroughs
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer. Carr had come to each of them and confessed; Kerouac helped him get rid of the weapon - neither told the police. For this failing they were arres ...Show more
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs & Jack Kerouac
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In 1944, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were charged as accessories to murder. One of their friends, Lucien Carr, had stabbed another, David Kammerrer, whose sexual advances he'd seemingly grown tired of rejecting. Carr, still in bloodstained clothes, had come to each of them and confessed; Kerou ...Show more
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and, the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilo ...Show more
Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg by William S. Burroughs; Allen Ginsberg; Steven Taylor (Editor)
$47.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs' classic novelNaked Lunch. The visit coincided with the s ...Show more
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental nov ...Show more
Junky by William S Burroughs
$24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
Depicts the addict's life: his hallucinations, his ghostly noctural wanderings, his strange sexuality and his hunger for the needle.
Junky by William S. Burroughs
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: WB
'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life' William Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of "Naked Lunch", relates with unflinching realism the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an unab ...Show more
Junky by William S. Burroughs
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time s ...Show more
Junky (Popular Penguins) by William S. Burroughs
$13.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld o ...Show more
Last Words by William Burroughs
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: WB | Reading Level: good
Letters 1945-59 by William S. Burroughs
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and style. Burroughs' letters show the development of both the man and the writer, vividly documenting his (often turbulent) personal and cultural history. The c ...Show more
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A special 50th anniversary edition of the anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats, featuring the restored text, all the accompanying essays, and newly discovered material from the original manuscript. Welcome to Interzone! Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best ...Show more