Copyright 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973 by William S.Burroughs. Although called a novel, it is comprised of a number of short stories.
SBN 670-00575-4 (US pbk)
short stories, novel, culture, Brion Gysin
Copyright 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973 by William S.Burroughs. Although called a novel, it is comprised of a number of short stories.
"The Lemon Kid",
"Short Trip Home",
"Davy Jones",
"The Evening News",
"Astronaut's Return",
"My Face",
"Wind Die. You Die. We Die",
"End of the Line",
"The Drums of Death",
"Johnny 23",
"The Discipline of DE",
"The Perfect Servant",
"Ali's Smile"
(originally published as a booklet by Unicorn, Brighton, UK, 1971),
"Twilight's Last Gleamings",
"The Coming of the Purple Better One",
"What Washington? What Orders?",
"From Here to Eternity",
"The Teacher",
"They Do Not Always Remember"
(short story, originally published in Argosy, 1967),
"Friends",
"Seeing Red",
"Old Movie",
"Electricals",
"SPUT",
"Reddies",
"The 'Priest' They Called Him",
"My Legs Senor",
"The End",
"Cold Lost Marbles".
"Exterminator! is hard and clear beyond even The Wild Boys . It is more literary... a series of statements about the contemporary West; about the moral evisceration of a post-Hiroshimas, post-Vietnam world, and the frenetic, fragmented sub-cultures which caper in the vacuum left behind.
"Nobody writes so beautifully about the jabbing fragments of memory and experience... nobody manages to make so much sense of insane violence as Burroughs does by reducing it to spectacle, a drug of unreality without which Western civilization -- which mistakes its own materialism for realism -- cannot get by". -- (in The Times Literary Supplement ).
"His satiric comedic skills cannot be faulted... his array of exterminators comes in so many shapes and sizes and colors that there's bound to be one who'll appeal to most. For the faithful, and for those who have yet to experience him, any new Burroughs is an occasion". -- (in the Boston Globe ).
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Unofficial William Burroughs Homepage
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