The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs [FIRST EDITION] 1971 • The Grove Presss

The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs

FIRST EDITION [1971] GROVE PRESS

Second Printing / 1971.  Includes vintage Random House industry card.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. 

Dust jacket is in beautiful condition; almost like new.  Minor wear to edges; otherwise clean and lustrous with price clipped front panel. 

Jacket ships in a new HQ brodart jacket protector!

Book itself is stunning.  Looks and reads like new. 

Boards are pristine, with sharp, gilded lettering on spine.  

Stunning copy! 

 ABOUT THE BOOK

A futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. 

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.