The Western Lands
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 1987 Viking Press harcover edition. |
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| 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 | 1987 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 258 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0670813524 |
| Preceded by | The Place of Dead Roads |
The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs, published in 1987, is a fiction novel which is the final part of the trilogy that begins with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads. The reference is to the western bank of the Nile River, which in Egyptian mythology is the Land of the Dead. Inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, it explores the after-death state by means of dream scenarios, hallucinatory passages, talismanic magic, occultism, superstition, and Burroughs’ characteristic view of the nature of reality.
Novels: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (unpublished) - Junkie - Queer - Naked Lunch - The Soft Machine - The Ticket That Exploded - Dead Fingers Talk - Nova Express - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz - The Wild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
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