The Western Lands - William S. Burroughs

Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality, loneliness, nuclear peril, and the inextinguishable hope for life after death. The Western Land is legendary Beat writer William S. Burrough's profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on morality, loneliness, life, and death -- a Book of the Dead for the nuclear age. Burrough's visionary power, his comic genius, and his unerring ability to crack the codes that make up the life of this century are undimished. -- J.G. Ballard, Washington Post Book World