Cities of the Red Night: A Novel

Cities of the Red Night: A Novel
by William S. Burroughs

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Author: William S. Burroughs
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-04
ISBN: 0312278462
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Picador

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Book Review: Sex, Violence & Time Travel
Summary: 4 Stars

William Burroughs creates the world he wants to live in... where sodomy and illicit drugs are plentiful, too say the least, and reality exists only in your beliefs. Composed of seemingly unrelated story lines (no spoilers here), one plot surrounding the violent takeover of Spanish territory by a cult of young renegade pirates, another centered on a Noir-esque globetrotting Private Eye and his... assistant... investigating a young boy murdered in a mysterious ritualistic manner involving hanging and, well, ejaculation. Throw in an inexplicable plague-like disease, time travel, gay sex and Burrough's patented deadpan narrative, you've got yourself an epic. This is what happens when Beats read history books strung out.

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While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus. An opium-infused apocalyptic vision from the legendary author of Naked Lunch is the first of the trilogy with The Places of the Dead Roads and his final novel, The Western Plains.

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