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The Place of Dead Roads

Audiobook

From the beat generation and counterculture author William S. Burroughs comes the second novel of the Red Night trilogy, available in audio for the first time.

This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: the Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; the Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and the Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carsons, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom.

Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces—the state, the church, women, literature, drugs—with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.


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Series: Red Night Trilogy Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781504699778
  • File size: 283064 KB
  • Release date: June 28, 2016
  • Duration: 09:49:42

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781504699778
  • File size: 283092 KB
  • Release date: June 28, 2016
  • Duration: 09:49:39
  • Number of parts: 9

Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

From the beat generation and counterculture author William S. Burroughs comes the second novel of the Red Night trilogy, available in audio for the first time.

This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: the Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; the Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and the Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carsons, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom.

Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces—the state, the church, women, literature, drugs—with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.


Expand title description text
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