Nova Express

The Restored Text

By: William S Burroughs, Professor Oliver Harris (Editor)

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Paperback | 8 April 2014

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A hallucinatory interstellar cops-and-robbers caper, and the second book in Burroughs's ?cut-up trilogy", Nova Express continues the nightmarish tale laid out in The Soft Machine. The diabolical Nova Criminals?Sammy the Butcher, Green Tony, Iron Claws, The Brown Artist, Jacky Blue Note, Izzy The Push, to name only a few?have gained control and plan on wreaking untold destruction. It's up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word and imagery machine of these ?control addicts" before it's too late. Part sci-fi, part Swiftian parody, Nova Express is pure Burroughs. This revised and rationalized edition, edited by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, incorporates a new introduction and appendices, which make it the definitive edition of the text.

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"A sermon blast of language. . . . Burroughs is the Martin Luther of hipsterism, welding his decree on the silicon doors of the solar system."--Newsweek "Hypnotic . . . outrageous. [Burroughs] can think of the wildest parodies of erotic exuberance and invent the weirdest places for demonstrating them." --Harper's

"Burroughs is first and foremost a poet. His attunement to contemporary language is probably unequalled in American writing. Anyone with a feeling for English phrase at its most balanced, concise, and arresting, cannot fail to see this excellence."--Terry Southern

"Burroughs writes with a beauty and efficiency unmatched by any living writer."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Macabre, funny, reverberant, grotesque."--The New York Review of Books A sermon blast of language. . . . Burroughs is the Martin Luther of hipsterism, welding his decree on the silicon doors of the solar system. "Newsweek" Hypnotic . . . outrageous. [Burroughs] can think of the wildest parodies of erotic exuberance and invent the weirdest places for demonstrating them. "Harper s" Burroughs is first and foremost a poet. His attunement to contemporary language is probably unequalled in American writing. Anyone with a feeling for English phrase at its most balanced, concise, and arresting, cannot fail to see this excellence. Terry Southern Burroughs writes with a beauty and efficiency unmatched by any living writer. "Chicago Sun-Times" Macabre, funny, reverberant, grotesque. "The New York Review of Books""

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