The Place of Dead Roads

The Red Night Trilogy, Book 2

By: William S. Burroughs

Narrated by: Ray Porter

From the beat generation and counterculture author William S. Burroughs comes the second novel of the Red Night trilogy, available in audio for the first time.

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 Carsons, 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 Burroughs' exploration of society's controlling forces - the state, the church, women, literature, drugs - with a style that is utterly unique in 20th-century literature.

©1983, 2013 William S. Burroughs (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

hard to listen to but harder to turn off he had me

at watching his blood rush to his swell his tumescent cock etc etc ad erotica nausea and thus lulled me to sleep EVENTUALLY

Ray Porter is Great

I like this book. I will listen to it again. But, the performance is better than the book.