Naked Lunch
- Who it’s for
- For readers interested in hallucinatory fantasy and political conflict.
- Themes
- Individual freedom, Totalitarianism, Drug use
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- 40%The Classics
- 38%Sci-Fi
- 29%Absurdist Fiction
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Hustler-addict Bill Lee travels from New York to Tangiers, running from the police and searching for a place to take drugs, until he enters the hallucinatory fantasy world of Interzone, where individual freedom confronts the forces of totalitarianism. Reissue. Read more
Publisher details
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Authors
- Burroughs, William
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic
- Published
- January 1, 1994
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction