The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs [FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION] 1985 • Holt Rinehart Winston

The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs [The Red Night Trilogy Book #2]

FIRST EDITION TRADE PAPERBACK [1985] OWL BOOKS • HOLT RINEHART & WINSTON

6th printing / 1985.   XL trade paperback w/ wraps identical to the hardcover first edition. 

Jumbo trade paperback, like new with minor shelf wear.

Feverish, disconcerting, witheringly funny, and always brilliant, here is William Burroughs at his most exalted pitch. Once again, he radically assaults the reader's expectations at the same time that he expands the scope of the novel. Erotic and violent, filled with hallucinatory images, The Place of Dead Roads is a surreal 19th-century Western that involves the crusade of a gunslinger, Kim Carsons, to organize planet Earth into his idea of a saner, more meaningful world. Abetting him in this endeavor are scoundrels, bums, and thieves whom he refers to collectively as

"the Johnson family," a phrase from Western lore denoting the proverbial bond of honor between outlaws. Burroughs's work is rooted in the dark side of the American imagination; his real territory is the chaos of the unconscious.