Book description
The diabolical Nova Criminals now include the nightmarish characters of
Sammy the Butcher, Iron Claws, Izzy the Push and the Brown Artist, and
are poised to wreak untold destruction on the world with their new-found
control. Only Inspector Lee of the Nova Police has any chance of
stopping them, by dismantling the word and image machine before it's too
late. The third book of Burroughs's linguistically prophetic 'cut-up'
trilogy - following
The Soft Machine
and The Ticket That Exploded
- Nova Express
is a hilarious and Swiftian parody of bureaucracy and the frailty of
the human animal. William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in
St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion
of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape
those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a
drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began
writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the
most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative
artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked
Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The
Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine
. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs
finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.
