The Wild Boys : A book of the dead

Author(s): William S. Burroughs

FICTION

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. First published 1967, 1970 and 1977.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780141189833
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Classics
  • : October 2008
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : William S. Burroughs
  • : Paperback
  • : 209
  • : 192