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The Ticket That Exploded
by William S. Burroughs
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In the third part of the Nova Tetralogy, Burroughs uses the cut-up technique to explore language systems in this continuing saga of the Nova Mob and its totalitarian hold on humanity. Known for exploding notions of plot, structure, logic, and rationality, and reducing narrative to an entirely personal, metaphorical account, Burroughs again uses science-fiction imagery to explore themes of greed, power, addiction, lust, and mediocrity. Characters morph, screech, shoot up, couple and uncouple with a surreality that zooms beyond Kafka, beyond Philip K. Dick.
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9780802151506,
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Grove Pr,
1992
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"Adding the new [work] to the other novels, the author has come out ahead. He is progressing toward fewer experiments and greater control of his complex medium. He is filling in his grand comedy...The comedy ultimately wins the reader. It's the authentic American kind that manages to make the best of the worst situations, swearing all the way. It used to be the exclusive property of Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe. William Burroughs, if he moves on from obsession, is eligible to inherit it."
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