This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid himself, Kim Carson, a homosexual gunslinger who, with a succession of beautiful sidekicks, sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom.
Fantastical and humorous, The Place of Dead Roads continues William Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the State, the Church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in twentieth-century literature.
- ISBN10 0714540323
- ISBN13 9780714540320
- Publish Date 25 July 1985 (first published 15 February 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Alma Books Ltd
- Imprint Calder Publications Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 306
- Language English