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The Soft Machine

William S. Burroughs

1966143 pagesabout 2–3 hours
1966
first published
  • 1966Grove Press · 182 pages
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  • 2014Penguin Books, Limited · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780141189789
  • 2014Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780802122117
  • 1986Flamingo · 144 pagesISBN 9780586085615
  • 1973Ballantine Books · ENGISBN 9780345236043

In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.

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