Waterstones Nova Express
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Price: £9.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. As with The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, William Burroughs deploys his cut-up methods to make a visionary demand that we take back the world that has been stolen from us. Edited and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, this new edition reveals how Nova Express was cut from an extraordinary wealth of typescripts to create startling new forms of poetic possibility. The third book of Burroughs' linguistically prophetic 'cut-up' trilogy - following The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded - Nova Express is a hilarious and Swiftian parody of bureaucracy and the frailty of the human animal.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780141396064
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780141396064
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Author: Inese
Rating: 5
Review: This book is great and very funny
Author: Rebus Tricoleur
Rating: 4
Review: First of the '60s cut up & folded in novels from William Burroughs I ever read. This book can read like the set-up for the entire cut-ups trilogy. Unlike the other two, a country-simple rehearsal... I recommend reading this book first before the others in the restored trilogy. Each little section within every chapter comes with a new title. Less scarey with signposts. Not so much queer sex though. Not many juicy passages, period. A slim & pretty succinct read though. Published unaltered 'til 2014... Oliver Harris's editing to 'restore' it would seem at first unnecessary, but he helpfully irons-out imperfections of the former text as far as lay-out and so on, as well as confirming or otherwise correcting certain oddities of word-use. Fascinating Notes by Harris, too.
