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  • Published: 3 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141189932
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Cities of the Red Night





The first part in a trilogy of novels, Cities of the Red Night satirizes modern society in a shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his execution; and the world's population is infected with a radioactive epidemic. These stories are woven together in a single tale of mayhem and chaos. In the first novel of the trilogy continued in The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands, William Burroughs sharply satirizes modern society in a poetic and shocking story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure.

  • Published: 3 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780141189932
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

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