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The Western Lands

The Red Night Trilogy, Book 3

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The Western Lands

By: William S. Burroughs
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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Here is the final novel of Burroughs' Red Night trilogy, available in audio for the first time.

A fascinating mix of autobiographical episodes and extraordinary Egyptian theology, Burroughs' final novel is poignant and melancholic. Blending war films and pornography, and referencing Kafka and Mailer, The Western Lands confirms Burroughs' status as one of America's greatest writers. The final novel of the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a Book of the Dead for the nuclear age, an astonishing, profound, and revealing meditation on morality, loneliness, life, and death.

©2016 William S. Burroughs (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Fiction
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The final book in WSB’s ‘Cities…’ trilogy finds the writer flitting between dimensional drifts, and virtually dispensing with the characters we were following in the first two books. Ray Porter does an excellent job once again of illuminating such a bizarre cast.

Burroughs at his most surreal

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