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This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom. Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Place of Dead Roads
• Author: Burroughs William S.
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780141189796
• ISBN: 978-0-141-18979-6
• ID: 05172429
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 238 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 130 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. January 2015

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