Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved
Take a journey into our ancient past
I want to see the people in the last days of their innocence
Cwen has been here longer than the civilisation she has returned to haunt
Jean-Michel Basquiat is the new wonder-kid taking the art world by storm
William S. Burroughs: The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (Penguin Modern Classics) [2008] paperback ZSCFI Read the searing first novelIn this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched