The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs Hardcover, Dust Jacket, Very Good

Description: The Western Lands is the eagerly awaited new novel by the most visionary American novelist of the twentieth century—a haunting Book of the Dead for the nuclear age.Every new work from the pen of William S. Burroughs is an important literary event. This is especially so in the case of The Western Lands. For in this novel, Burroughs completes a trilogy that began with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads, with a profound, revealing, and often astounding meditation on the themes of mortality, loneliness, nuclear peril—and the inextinguishable hope for an existence beyond bodily death.The symbolic vehicle Burroughs uses here is ancient Egyptian mythology, a long-standing interest of his. "The Western Lands" of the title are the territory to which the Egyptians believed the souls of the dead made a hazardous pilgrimage in their quest for true immortality. The questers—Joe the Dead, Kim Carsons, the scribe Neferti, Hassan i Sabbah, the Old Man of the Mountain—travel through an unmistakably Burroughs-esque universe of appalling danger and otherworldly beauty—now the back alleys of ancient Egypt, now bombed-out Berlin, now the Old West of the shootists. Their hallucinatory journeys express the author's belief that only through facing the most extreme dangers and testing the possibilities of biological mutation can man escape a dead-end world of blasted dreams and atomic finale. And presiding over all is the haunting figure of "the old writer," who shares in the fate of his characters in being finally unable to write himself out of Time, and into Space.The Western Lands continues and extends one of the great literary odysseys of our time, adding to Burroughs's awesome literary style and black humor chilling touches of elegy and autobiography. It is at once Burroughs's most personal and most universal work, yet another masterwork from the reigning genius of the American literary avant-garde. Combined shippingCombined shipping available for multiple items purchased at the same time ShippingWe will guarantee professional shipping that will protect your items with high quality materials that include the following (based on the merchandise we are shipping and not limited to) - Heavy Duty Boxes, Protective Film, Bubble Wrap, Foam Cushions, Foam Blocks, Peanuts, Packing Paper, Bubble Mailers, Corner Guards, Double Boxing and etc. We guarantee that we will have your items shipped on time, and if for some reason your item is hung up somewhere or tracking is not updating for some reason, please feel free to reach out so we can find the answers together. If your package/box arrives and it appears to be damaged physically or by sound, please reach out to us immediately and take photos of the packaging so we are able address the situation with the postal service right away. It is very important to us that your package arrives to you safe and sound RecycleWe strive do our very best at doing our part when it comes to repurposing and recycling with materials for shipping our products. We may at times use news paper, magazine pages, paper, random branded boxes, foam cut outs and etc. The good thing is, we will NEVER sacrifice the quality of the shipping and handling! We want all of our wonderful customers to ALWAYS smile when they open their purchased products.

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