The Soft Machine: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs (English) Paperback

Description: The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris Draws the reader into an unmappable textual space, where nothing is true and everything is permitted, to make a total assault on the colonising powers of planet earth that have turned us all into machines. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, the first novel in Burroughs prophetic and revolutionary cut-up trilogy, now in a newly restored editionWith a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies - his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his skills to defeat a team of priests, who are using mind control to produce their own private slave race. Dead soldiers, African street urchins, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history and science all feature in Lees terrifying adventure.A surreal space odyssey, The Soft Machine is the first book in Burroughs innovative cut-up trilogy - followed by Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded - and a ferocious assault on hype, poverty, war and addiction in all its forms. Author Biography William S Burroughs (Author)William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.Oliver Harris (External Editor)Oliver Harris is professor of American literature at Keele University and the editor of The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 (1993), Junky- the Definitive Text of "Junk" (2003), The Yage Letters Redux (2006), and Everything Lost- The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2008). He has published articles on film noir, the epistolary, and Beat Generation writing and the book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination (2003). He is currently co-editing Naked Lunch@50- Anniversary Essays (2009) and working on a new twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Queer (forthcoming in 2010). Promotional The Soft Machine is the first book in Burroughs innovative cut-up Nova trilogy - followed by Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. Now in a new, revised edition based on Burroughs original manuscripts, it is a ferocious assault on hype, poverty, war and addiction in all its forms. Promotional "Headline" For the first time in Penguin Modern Classics, the first novel in Burroughs prophetic and revolutionary cut-up trilogy, now in a newly restored edition Details ISBN0141189789 Year 2014 ISBN-10 0141189789 ISBN-13 9780141189789 Media Book Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Publication Date 2014-04-22 Pages 336 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle The Restored Text Edited by Oliver Harris Birth 1961 Series Penguin Modern Classics Format Paperback Imprint Penguin Classics Language English UK Release Date 2014-04-22 Author Oliver Harris Alternative 9780141976051 DEWEY 813/.54 Audience General NZ Release Date 2014-07-22 AU Release Date 2014-07-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145053795;

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