The Place of Dead Roads (Penguin Modern Classics)

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 Carson 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 William 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.