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The Western Lands (Picador Books) (Paperback)

by William S. Burroughs (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; New edition edition (2 Dec 1988)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330305115
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330305112
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.1 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 43,924 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Burroughs bidding fairwell in style., 25 Jan 2000
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I believe 'The Western Lands' is Burroughs' last novel, and it shows. It is written in a tone that tells you it is a last novel, like Vonnegut's 'Timequake', and like 'Timequake' it carries with it a poignant melancholy. Burroughs finishes his trilogy which began with Cities Of The Red Night and continued with The Place Of Dead Roads by giving us a retrospective of what feels like all of his work. Junky is in here, as is Queer, The Naked Lunch, and everything in between. As usual he throws together war-films, pornography, and science fiction with the ease of a chef mixing eggs and flour. The result is an exciting, vibrant, and even touching novel that dances to its end like the carnival of the twentieth century. While Naked Lunch will always be the cult Burroughs novel, Western Lands is, for me, the one in which he seals his fate as America's greatest writer of the last century.
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