by William S. Burroughs

The Restored Text.  Edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles (Penguin Modern Classics)  289 pages + intros

"I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves"

Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs's virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction.  One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs's notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original

"A masterpiece.  A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, and savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination and fierce, exact satire" Newsweek

"Naked Lunch is a banquet you will never forget"  J.G. Ballard