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 Weekly

PRAISE 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