The Western Lands

Praise

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 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