NAKED LUNCH

WELCOME TO INTERZONE... Say hello to Bradley the Buyer, the best narcoticsagent in the business. Check yourself into the hospital where Dr Benwayworks - but don't expect adrenalin if you need it (the night porter shotit up for kicks). Meet Dr 'Fingers' Schafer, the Lobotomy Kid, and hisgreatest creation, 'The Complete American De-anxietized Man', a marvel ofinvasive psychiatry who has been reduced to nothing but a spinal cord.Told by an Ivy League-educated narcotics addict, Naked Lunch juxtaposestwo journeys: the narrator's physical progress from America to NorthAfrica, via Mexico, and a terrifying descent into his own alteredconsciousness. In this "Interzone", loosely based on Burroughs' temporaryhome Tangier, sex, drugs and murder are the most basic of commodities, andthe basest desires have become completely banal. Provocative, influential,morbidly fascinating and mordantly funny, Naked Lunch takes us on anexhilarating ride through the darkest recesses of the human psyche - aride which stunned the literary world when first published in therepressed 1950s, and is still guaranteed to épater more than a fewbourgeois. Over forty years after first publication, Burroughs scholarBarry Miles and Burroughs' longtime editor James Grauerholz have compiledthis definitive restored text, correcting numerous errors that haveaccumulated over the years, and incorporating all of Burroughs' notes andaccompanying essays. Most exciting of all, this edition includes anappendix of newly discovered, never before seen material - includingalternate drafts from the original manuscript and letters from Burrough'sprivate correspondence.