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Exterminator! (original 1973; edition 1979)

by William S. Burroughs

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Title:Exterminator!
Authors:William S. Burroughs
Info:Penguin Books (1979), Paperback, 176 pages
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Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs (1973)

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Amazingly fractured, but Burroughs' way of going about the stories (writing style, metaphors, names, repetition) serves as a common backdrop. Non-sensical throughout a majority of the book (especially if you try to intertwine the stories in your head constantly), but artfully so.

It's only about 160 pages long in my edition, which was also horribly laid out in the typography/design sense, but definitely worth the read. Almost as good as Junky.

Burroughs was a master when it came to imagery, obscenity and rhythm. ( )
  calwakeel | Jul 10, 2009 |
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DO NOT COMBINE THIS WORK with The Exterminator (1960). The Exterminator and Exterminator! are not the same work.
The Exterminator (note the article and absence of a "!" at the end) is an early cut-up work co-written with Brion Gysin, originally published in 1960, and reprinted only once, in 1967.
Exterminator! is (despite its subtitle: a novel) a collection of short pieces originally written from the mid-'60s to early '70s, and first published in this form in 1973. It has been reprinted many times since and is the work still in print today.
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