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Cities of the Red Night
Cities of the Red Night
Author: William S. Burroughs
Three stories are interwoven in this novel. Clem Snide, a private detective, has to solve a case of ritual murder. In the Gobi Desert 100,000 years ago, a red virus has erupted. And in the 18th century, gay pirates have set up their own republics in South America and are at war with the conquistadors (Burroughs also uses this last theme in his n...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805039559
ISBN-10: 0805039554
Publication Date: 3/1995
Pages: 332
Edition: Reissue
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Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Remember the scene from Melville's Billy Budd where Budd is hung and somehow the Captain reacts as if he's been hung instead and his body reacts accordingly? Repeat this scene about 2000 times over a couple hundred of pages and you have Cities of the Red Night. I can't tell of Burroughs is a genius or just a lazy writer--probably a little of both.


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