The Place of Dead Roads

The Red Night Trilogy - Book 2

The Place of Dead Roads

By William S. Burroughs
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“It’s a comedy and a nightmare of Bosch-like visions, extraordinarily precise vivid visualizations, outrageous ideas like mind bombs.”

Allen Ginsberg

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 twentieth-century literature.

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  1. Rogue Writer
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    This audiobook warrants multiple listens. Throughout the book, I didn’t know what was going on. I was left clutching for firm footing somewhere, anywhere, in time or space. By the time I reached the end, though, the story suddenly became a bit clearer. This book is not for anyone who demands wholesome, linear storytelling. This book requires a lot from the listener. Ray Porter had his work cut out for him in translating this work of Burroughs fiction into audio format. At first, his pacing and voicing threw me, but after further listening, it worked and it worked well. Give the narration and storytelling a chance. See it through. Then listen to it again.

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