Exterminator!
by Burroughs, William S.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1979-03-29
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary
Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and various medical and psychiatric horrors all play their parts in this mosaiclike, experimental novel. Here is William S. Burroughs at his coruscating and hilarious best. Book jacket.
Author Biography
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) was an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century". His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays including Naked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, My Education, and Interzone.
Table of Contents
| "Exterminator!" | p. 3 |
| The Lemon Kid | p. 9 |
| Short Trip Home | p. 15 |
| Davy Jones | p. 17 |
| The Evening News | p. 20 |
| Astronaut's Return | p. 22 |
| My Face | p. 28 |
| Wind Die. You Die. We Die | p. 36 |
| End of the Line | p. 46 |
| The Drums of Death | p. 50 |
| "Johnny 23" | p. 52 |
| The Discipline of DE | p. 55 |
| The Perfect Servant | p. 68 |
| Ali's Smile | p. 74 |
| Twilight's Last Gleamings | p. 85 |
| The Coming of the Purple Better One | p. 93 |
| "What Washington? What Orders?" | p. 110 |
| From Here to Eternity | p. 115 |
| The Teacher | p. 119 |
| They Do Not Always Remember | p. 133 |
| Friends | p. 137 |
| Seeing Red | p. 141 |
| Old Movie | p. 143 |
| Electricals | p. 144 |
| SPUT | p. 149 |
| Reddies | p. 152 |
| The "Priest" They Called Him | p. 156 |
| My Legs Senor | p. 160 |
| The End | p. 162 |
| Cold Lost Marbles | p. 168 |
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