About this title: The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780552093965ISBN:0552093963
Description: Good. Book is in good shape. Pages are tanning with age and it has price and bookstore stamp inside. We process quickly and carefully. read more
Edition: 1992 with full number line
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove Press/Everbreen Edition, In Stock, Ships from CA. United States
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. corners on front cover bumped and split, pencil erasures on front free end paper, tight binding, clean text, no marks or creases in or on book, an excellent reading copy. 184 p. Trade soft cover ISBN-0802133312 read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780802133311ISBN:0802133312
Description: Clean solid copy. Unmarked pages. Good plus. "The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. " Said to be his most accesible work by the Los Angles Times. The Saturday Review writes; has never written better of the flying psyche..." 8vo-over 7�"-9�" tall. Book. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date Published: 1992-09-01
ISBN-13:9780802133311ISBN:0802133312
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780802133311. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780802133311ISBN:0802133312
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780802133311ISBN:0802133312
Description: As NEW. A Book of the Dead. 184pp. 21 cm. in lavender-colored wrappers. New. The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dell / Grove
Date Published: 1971
Description: NF. Mass market paperback, 184 pages, states first printing on copyright page. The plot is basically about a group of "Wild Boys" who live at the fringes of society, and live to cause chaos on the all-too strictly regimented world of order. This is a pristine copy, tight and never read. Edges of page block are tinted yellow. The covers have just a touch of aging, especially on insides, and a very minor flaw at bottom tip. Red title very lightly sunned. The spine reads Dell, title page credit ... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Grove Evergreen, 1973.
Date Published: 1973
Description: Very Good. First printing, this edition. Mass-market paperback. Nearly Fine copy with no real flaws. No creasing, no tears, no names, no wear. A superb copy. Only flaw is very faint stain near base of spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780141189833ISBN:0141189835
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 192 pages. A novel that sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army. (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780394178196ISBN:039417819X
Description: Very Good Minus. 184 pages. First Evergreen Black Cat Edition. Stated first printing. Tight binding with uncreased pictorial cover. Paper slightly tanned but clean and unmarked. Spine creased and a small sticker light scuffing at the pricing area of front cover. read more
""The Wild Boys" is a blueprint for a gay revolution. A gang of teenage boys in North Africa use the technologies and media of their time to evolve into a worldwide tribe of cloned warriors battling for domination of the planet. Burroughs pulls in ideas from Islam, modern advertizing, emerging gay counter-culture and science fiction to tell a cautionary tale of the oppressed becoming the oppressor. In the process, he raises questions about the nature of minority identity. When does creating a community become isolationism? When does heresy become orthodoxy? Where does the individual lose themselves when associating with a group? By the end, it’s not clear whether the revolution has succeeded or failed. Have the boys been liberated or taken on new shackles? Burroughs puts his literary techniques of cut-up, the routine and mixed media to great use in “The Wild Boys”. After the Grove Press re-writing of the Nova books, he appears to have internalized and mastered these techniques. They no longer dominate the narrative, they are used illustrate and accent it. I think “The Wild Boys” is Burroughs entering his mature phase of writing. It sets the path for later works such as “Cities of the Red Night” and “The Place of Dead Roads” while standing on its own as an innovative way of telling a compelling story."
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