Skip to Main Content (Press Enter)
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
Add Exterminator! to bookshelf
Add to Bookshelf

Exterminator!

Best Seller
Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs
Paperback $22.00
Mar 29, 1979 | ISBN 9780140050035

Buy from Other Retailers:

  • $22.00

    Mar 29, 1979 | ISBN 9780140050035

    Buy from Other Retailers:

Product Details

Praise

PRAISE FOR EXTERMINATOR!

“Among his most important books.” — The New York Times (1997) 

“Since this is Burroughs…there are still a few things we can depend on: narratives spin in surrealist swirls; bodies are hideously transformed and giddily abused; sci-fi gadgetry abounds. The forbidden philias get short shrift; but sodomy, sadism, murder and excrement (lots of it!) find their way, often together, into his gleefully suppurating prose.” The New York Times (1973)

“Another compendium of sci-fi, horror-erotica, and general culture-snuffing by America’s richest ex-junkie…. He may be our only writer whose socio-political apocalyptica transcend both paranoia and triviality; his imagination is superb, his ear savagely satiric…” — Kirkus Reviews


PRAISE FOR WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: 

“The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius.” —Norman Mailer

“Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.” —Jack Kerouac

“He’s a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what’s on the end of the fork . . . the truth.” —J. G. Ballard

“Burroughs was the last great avatar of literary modernism…” – Will Self

“A creator of grim fairy tales for adults, Burroughs spoke to our nightmare fears and, still worse, to our nightmare longings. . . . And more than any other postwar wordsmith, he bridged generations; popularity in the youth culture is greater now than during the heady days of the Beats.” —The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Looking for More Great Reads?
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
Back to Top