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Naked lunch : the restored text  Cover Image Book Book

Naked lunch : the restored text / William S. Burroughs ; edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles.

Summary:

Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volume-that contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugs-is a valuable and fresh experience of a novel that has lost none of its relevance or satirical bite.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802140180
  • ISBN: 0802140181
  • Physical Description: vii, 289 pages (softcover) ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Grove Press, [2001]
  • Distributor: Publishers Group West.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Naked lunch -- And start West -- The vigilante -- The rube -- Benway -- Joselito -- The black meat -- Hospital -- Lazarus go home -- Hassan's rumpus room -- Campus of Interzone University -- A.J.'s annual party -- Meeting of International Conference of Technological Psychiatry -- The market -- Ordinary men and women -- Islam Incorporated and the parties of Interzone -- The county clerk -- Interzone -- The examination -- Have you seen Pantopon Rose? -- Coke bugs -- The exterminator doe a good job -- The algebra of need -- Hauser and O'Brien -- Atrophied preface -- Quick ... -- Original introductions and additions by the author -- Deposition : testimony concerning a sickness [1960] -- Post script ... wouldn't you [1960] -- Afterthoughts on a deposition [1991] -- Letter from a master addict to dangerous drugs [1956] -- Burroughs texts annexed by the editors -- Editors' notes by Barry Miles and James Grauerholz -- Letter to Irving Rosenthal [1960] -- The death of Mel the waiter [undated] -- Outtakes : the vigilante -- Outtakes : the rube -- Outtakes : Benway -- Outtakes : the black meat -- Outtakes : hospital -- Outtakes : A.J.'s annual party -- Outtakes : Islam Incorporated and the parties of Interzone -- Outtakes : the examination -- Outtakes : Coke bugs -- Outtakes : Hauser and O'Brien -- Outtakes : atrophied preface.
Subject: Drug abuse > Fiction.
Drug addicts > Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) > Fiction.
Drug withdrawal symptoms > Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Classics.
FICTION / Psychological.
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Satirical literature.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Monticello-Union Twp PL - Monticello F BURROUGHS (Text) 37743001723784 Adult Fiction Available -
Putnam County Public Library - Main FIC BUR c.1 (Text) 30041001724903 Adult Fiction Available -


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