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Title: THE WILD BOYS
A BOOK OF THE DEAD
By: William S. Burroughs
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0141189835
ISBN 13: 9780141189833
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 6 November, 2008
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 192
Description: 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.
Synopsis: In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it 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. The Wild Boys shows why Burroughs is a writer unlike any other, able to make captivating the explicit and horrific.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Returns: Returnable
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