The Place of Dead Roads
A Novel
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ISBN10: 0312278659
ISBN13: 9780312278656
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336 Pages
$23.00
CA$24.99
In this typically bizarre and brillant novel, Burroughs gets things going with an old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of frontier times. From here, readers embark on a hyperkinetic adventure wherein a group of gunslingers, led by one Kim Carson, must fight for galactic freedom. The Place of Dead Roads is the second novel in the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night (and ends with The Western Lands).
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Praise for The Place of Dead Roads
"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
