The Western Lands (Picador Books)

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Burroughs bidding fairwell in style. - By: , 25 Jan 2000
I believe 'The Western Lands' is Burroughs' last novel, & it shows. It is written in a tone that tells you it is a last novel, like Vonnegut's 'Timequake', & like 'Timequake' it carries with it a poignant melancholy. Burroughs finishes his trilogy which began with Cities Of The Red Night & continued with The Place Of Dead Roads by giving us a retrospective of what feels like alll of his work. Junky is in here, as is Queer, The Naked Lunch, & everything in between. As usual he throws together war-films, pornography, & science fiction with the ease of a chef mixing eggs & flour. The result is an exciting, vibrant, & even touching novel that dances to its end like the carnival of the twentieth century. While Naked Lunch will always be the cult Burroughs novel, Western Lands is, for me, the one in which he seals his fate as America's greatest writer of the last century.

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