Ghost of Chance
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| 1995 High Risk Books hardcover edition | |
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novella, Adventure novel |
| Publisher | Whitney Museum of American Art |
| Released | 1991 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 1-85242-406-0 (1995 edition) |
Ghost of Chance is an adventure novella written by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs. The story was first published in 1991 in a special limited edition by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art; this was followed by a mass market hardcover edition in 1995 by High Risk Books and a paperback edition was published after Burroughs' death.
The novella, set in Madagascar, initially focuses on a character named Captain Mission, and is described on the back cover of the 1995 edition as being "an important story about environmental devastation".
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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| Novels: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) - Junkie - Queer - Naked Lunch - The Soft Machine - The Ticket That Exploded - Dead Fingers Talk - Nova Express - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz - The Wild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 |
