Cities of the red night - William S Burroughs

'Not only Burroughs's best work, but a logical ripening extension of all Burroughs's great work' Ken Kesey

'Burroughs is an awe-inspiring poetic magician. I believe Cities of the Red Night is his masterpiece' Christopher Isherwood

'The outrageousness of Cities of the Red Night suggests it was written in collusion with Swift, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer, Orwell, Lenny Bruce, General Patton and John Calvin . . . Burroughs may just turn out to be a hipster Moses leading his children of darkness through debauched deserts into the promised land' San Francisco Chronicle

'Elliptical, startling and very funny' Time Out

'Burroughs's nightmares render Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four as innocuous as The Archers' Heathcote Williams, Guardian

'He has created an obsessive landscape which lingers in the mind as a fundamental statement about the possibilities of human life, hopelessly lost and yet so much to be hoped for. I don't expect to read a better novel this year' Peter Ackroyd, Sunday Times

'Cities of the Red Night is the culmination of William Burroughs's comic genius, his most beautiful and terrifying book. An unqualified masterwork of prophetic literature' Michael Herr