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  • Published: 2 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141903392
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

The Wild Boys

A Book of the Dead





In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army. The Wild Boys shows why Burroughs is a writer unlike any other, able to make captivating the explicit and horrific.

  • Published: 2 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780141903392
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

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