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The Restored Text
50th Anniversary Edition
Grove Press
November 2009
On Sale: November 1, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0802119263
EAN: 9780802119261
Hardcover
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Fifty years ago, Olympia Press in Paris issued a book that
redefined not just American literature, but American
culture. Naked Lunch, the U.S. edition of which soon
followed from Grove Press, is one of the most important and
influential novels of the twentieth century. An unnerving
tale of an addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and
ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, Naked
Lunch’s formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter,
and tour de force execution has exerted its influence on the
works of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and
William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity;
and on the shape of music, film, and media in general. On
the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication, Grove
Press is proud to issue a special hardcover edition
featuring the restored text that is faithful to Burroughs’s
original composition, an introduction from David Ulin, book
editor of the Los Angeles Times, as well as reproductions of
original manuscript pages and drawings.
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