Book description
From William Burroughs, cult author of 'Naked Lunch', the second title
in his classic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'.
A prophetic vision of a world in which technology has gone haywire,
'The Ticket That Exploded' continues the adventures of Agent Lee in his
mission to investigate and subvert the methods of mind control being
used by The Nova Mob. Experimental, unnerving and compelling in equal
measure, this is a completely original work of science fiction and a
gripping moral and political fable from post-war America's most
controversial and influential writer.
This is the second novel in Burroughs's classic 'Cut-Up Trilogy',
following 'The Soft Machine' and preceding 'Nova Express'. 'As filthy
and boggling as it was in 1968 - would he get away with it today?' Time Out
'The fold-in technique gives excellent comic and satiric
results…cleverly combines the raw energy of lowbrow spy- and
science-fiction with the brutal unfamiliarity of hardcore pornography.' Spectator
'He has a savage sense of comedy and a cleverly educated ear for the
haunting casual phrase.' Scotsman
'In Mr Burroughs's hands, writing reverts to acts of magic, as though
he were making some enormous infernal encyclopaedia of all the black
impulses and acts that, once made, would shut the fiends away forever.'
New York Times
'His Swiftian vision of a processed, pre-packaged life, a kind of
electro-chemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of
hilarious horror.' Playboy William Burroughs was born in St Louis,
Missouri in 1914. Immensely influential among the Beat writers of the
1950s - notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg - he already had an
underground reputation before the appearance of his first important
book, 'Naked Lunch'. Originally published by the daring and influential
Olympia Press (the original publishers of Henry Miller) in France in
1959, it aroused great controversy on publication and was not available
in the US until 1962 and in the UK until 1964. The book was adapted for
film by David Cronenberg in 1991. William Burroughs died in 1997.
