Cities of the Red Night
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| Hardcover edition by Viking Press. | |
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Cities of the Red Night trilogy |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Viking Press |
| Released | 1981 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-312-27846-2 (US Paperback) |
| Followed by | The Place of Dead Roads |
Cities of the Red Night is a novel by beat author William S. Burroughs that was first published in 1981 (his first new full-length novel since The Wild Boys a decade earlier). It is the first in a trilogy and is followed by The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands. The plot of this somewhat disjunctive work revolves around a group of revolutionary homosexual drug addicts who seek the freedom to live as they will, while a supernatural disease spreads across the world. The events described occur across vast expanses of time and space, without obvious temporal or spatial connections.
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| Works by William S. Burroughs |
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| Novels: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) - Junkie - Queer - Naked Lunch - The Soft Machine - The Ticket That Exploded - Dead Fingers Talk - Nova Express - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz - The Wild Boys - Port of Saints - Cities of the Red Night - The Place of Dead Roads - The Western Lands - My Education: A Book of Dreams Short fiction : Interzone - Exterminator! - Ali's Smile/Naked Scientology - Blade Runner (a movie) - Tornado Alley - Ghost of Chance Non-fiction: The Yage Letters - The Electronic Revolution - The Job - The Third Mind - Letters to Allen Ginsberg - The Burroughs File - The Adding Machine: Collected Essays - The Cat Inside - Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs - Evil River (announced 2007) Recordings : Dead City Radio Films: The Junky's Christmas - Ah Pook is Here - Naked Lunch |
