Ghost of Chance

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William Burroughs shot his wife. But he was very kind to cats...This adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar starts with a pirate on Madagascar who develops an obsessive relationship with a lemur and attempts to set up a Utoplan society. It then spins out to take in famllar Burroughs obsessions: drugs, paranoia, the origins of disease and the devastation of the universe - the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, "the only American writer possessed by genlus." Driven by his concern about global environmental catastrophe. Burroughs concocts a powerful moral brew in one of his most accessible and finest books.

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'The only American writer possessed by genlus' Norman Mailer; 'The man's got something to say, so shut up and listen' Time Out; 'Unleashed [is] the formidable power of Burroughs the essayist of conscience, agony, and vitriol' Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

William S Burroughs is the grand-daddy of all cult writers. He is the author of Naked Lunch, Junky and many other novels. Short stories appear in High Risk 1 and The Junky's Christmas, both published by Serpent's Tail. He died in 1998. Ghost of Chance was first published by Serpent s Tail in hardback in 1997.