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Author:

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.

Title:

The soft machine : the restored text / William S. Burroughs ; edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris.

Edition:

Third revised edition

Publisher:

Grove Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

liii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Subject:

Gay men--Fiction.
Homosexuals masculine--Roman.
Science fiction.
Drug abuse--Fiction.
Cut-ups (Literary form)
Black humor

Other Authors:

Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.)

Notes:

First published in 1961. "A book of the cut-up trilogy"--Spine. Includes bibliographical references (p. l-liii).

Contents:

Dead on arrival -- Who am I to be critical? -- Public agent -- Trak trak trak -- Early answer -- Case of the celluloid Kali -- The Mayan caper -- I Sekuin -- Pretend an interest -- Last hints -- Where the awning flaps -- 1920 movies -- Where you belong -- Uranian Willy -- Gongs of violence --Male image in black -- Dead fingers talk -- Cross the wounded galaxies.

Summary:

"The Soft Machine is Burroughs' original cut-up novel, first in an experimental trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. A surreal space-age odyssey and a total assault on the powers that turn humans into machines, the book draws the reader into an unmappable textual space where nothing is true and everyting is permitted"--Back cover.

Series:

Book of the cut-up trilogy

ISBN:

0802122116 (pbk.)
9780802122117 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)878079335

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)