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In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
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Open-ended, prestige, formally daring and bleak.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- William S. Burroughs
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 182
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Flamingo, C. Bourgois
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- French, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780802122117
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