The Western Lands

PRAISE FOR THE WESTERN LANDS: "Among his most important books." — The New York Times (1997)"…seems like nothing else being published in the United States today…" — The New York Times (1988)"The trilogy that began with Cities of the Red Night and continued with The Place of Dead Roads is completed here, and the result is a divine comedy …a remarkable achievement …concerning the search for eternal rest that is symbolized by the Western Lands of Egyptian mythology." — Publishers WeeklyPRAISE FOR WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: "The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.” —Norman Mailer“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.” —Jack Kerouac"He’s a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what’s on the end of the fork . . . the truth.” —J. G. Ballard“Burroughs was the last great avatar of literary modernism…" — Will Self“A creator of grim fairy tales for adults, Burroughs spoke to our nightmare fears and, still worse, to our nightmare longings. . . . And more than any other postwar wordsmith, he bridged generations; popularity in the youth culture is greater now than during the heady days of the Beats.” —The Los Angeles Times Book Review