About this title: In the third part of the Nova Tetralogy, Burroughs uses the cut-up technique to explore language systems in this continuing saga of the Nova Mob and its totalitarian hold on humanity. Known for exploding notions of plot, structure, logic, and rationality, and reducing narrative to an entirely personal, metaphorical account, Burroughs again uses science-fiction imagery to explore themes of greed, power, addiction, lust, and mediocrity. Characters morph, screech, shoot up, couple and uncouple with a surreality that zooms beyond Kafka, beyond Philip K. Dick.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780802151506ISBN:0802151507
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. VG+ Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. 1987 Grove Press paperback. VG+ clean, tight and seems unread. Small, red remainder mark at bottom page edges, one crease at front cover lower corner. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: N.Y. : Grove Press, 1987, 1st Evergreen Edition, 1st Printing
ISBN-13:9780802151506ISBN:0802151507
Description: Jo Bonney Cover Design. Near Fine. ----------trade paperback, Near Fine., any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date Published: 1992-09-01
ISBN-13:9780802151506ISBN:0802151507
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802151506ISBN:0802151507
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"My ex John gave me a first-edition copy of this for my birthday with the caveat that if I was ever broke I could probably get good money for it. It's one long cut-up with sections repeating and repeating in endless permutations of young-boy swamp sex and rectal mucous that is moderately unreadable, leaving the first-edition hardcover in good saleable shape."
"apparently this is not a great book to read when you've recently moved to los angeles and are spending a lot of time commuting alone on the usually-quite-empty subway. i thought it was wholly disturbing. maybe this means i'm showing my 'staid and normal' hand, but so be it.
also - i'm trying to suss out why a lot of people compare burroughs and mangels to pynchon. i'm not seeing the connection yet, but then again i've only read 'the crying of lot 49'. anyhoo ..."
"This is my favourite of the cut-up novels. Once you get used to the technique that Burroughs uses for constructing his texts the books can be appreciated for the insightful and compelling explorations of the human condition that they are."
"I read this right after reading Bukowski, so I was a little apprehensive. I really didn´t want another masturbatory ode to losers and the women they convice to take care of them.
I really liked this book. It was so stream-of-conciousness that after awhile it became a game to figure out any kind of story line underneath it all. (There is) It was actually quite disorienting: a straighforward paragraph, a paragragh or two disecting the first paragraphy, five or six paragraghs dissecting the previous ones, then several pages of literary echolalia (WORD POINTS!) bringing into focus what had just been covered and moments, phrases, words from previous moments of clarity mixed up with all sorts of randomness. Then...back to clean text all of a sudden. It was jarring..in a good way.
I liked it because it was easy for my mind to go in a million places all at once, very stimulating."
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