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Naked Lunch

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Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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About this listen

 Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the 20th century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture.

This is an unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and, ultimately, a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone. The restored text includes many editorial corrections and incorporates Burroughs's notes on the text and several essays he wrote over the years about the book. For the Burroughs enthusiast and neophyte alike, this is a valuable and fresh experience of this classic of our culture.

©2001 William S. Burroughs Trust (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Fiction

Critic Reviews

"William was a Shootist. He shot like he wrote - with extreme precision and no fear." (Hunter S. Thompson, Rolling Stone)
"A masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire." ( Newsweek)
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Found it a true representation from lived experience of drug addiction. Nothing is logical when high on substances.

True representation

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this audio is amazing the reading was fantastic, I'm gonna be listening again again five stars

Masterpiece

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I foolishly agreed to read this with a friend. it is just dreadful. A completely disconnected stream of nonsense with the narrowest of subject matter. it sounds as if written by a machine from a small corpus

Truly dreadful

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