About this title: Three stories are interwoven in this novel. Clem Snide, a private detective, has to solve a case of ritual murder. In the Gobi Desert 100,000 years ago, a red virus has erupted. And in the 18th century, gay pirates have set up their own republics in South America and are at war with the conquistadors (Burroughs also uses this last theme in his ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780805039559ISBN:0805039554
Description: Good. Isbn matches softcover w/ light wear to cover and clean text FAST SHIPPING W/ CONFIRMATION. NO PRIORITY OR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS OVER 4LBs. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780805039559ISBN:0805039554
Description: Good. Book has creases to front corner, and some wear to front cover where a sticker removed some of the print. spine is nice and straight with no creases. this is a second printing first ed. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780805039559ISBN:0805039554
Description: Good. Paperback in good condition. The cover and a few pages have a curl, and some creases, some edge rubbing, some light stains on the page edges, [Satisfaction Guaranteed! ]. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780030615214ISBN:0030615216
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minimal rubbing and curling, foxing, else fine. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Edition Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Holt Rinehart and Winston / An Owl Book [1982], New York
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780030615214ISBN:0030615216
Description: Near Fine. First edition thus. Review copy with review slip [with cover price corrected by hand, as issued] laid in. 332 pages. Near Fine copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780030539763ISBN:0030539765
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 332 pages. Stated First Edition. in edgeworn jacket. Owner's name on endpaper. A few minor marginal notes and marks. Prompt shipping. Careful packing. read more
"I refuse to read anything else by this author. Naked Lunch was a waste of time, Junky was somewhat better and this is simply a literary abortion. For the life of me I have no idea what I have just finished reading. At the start the novel seems to follow a P.I. as he investigates the disappearance of a young man. Then suddenly there are chapters from 1702 about gay pirates who want to take over the New World. Then if that isn't bad enough every other passage is littered with really obscene and weird imagery. The second half of the book degenerates into absolute incoherent, non-linear nonsense. This man produces garbage not fit for anyone's consumption."
"Burroughs mitigates the cut-ups here with more linear plot-lines. I prefer this style to pure cut-up, even though reading the latter gave me peculiar lucid dreams. One of my favorites."
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