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"Ghost of Chance" is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, 'the only American writer possessed by genius'. While tripping through the author's trademark concerns - drugs, paranoia, and lemurs - this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can tell it. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

絶滅していく霊的な存在へ哀切をこめて描くバロウズの最新作。マダガスカル島の聖なる存在「大きなゴースト」と、海賊ミッション船長の冒険譚…。

絶滅してゆく霊的な存在へ、哀切をこめて描くバロウズの最新作。マダガスカル島の聖なる存在「大きなゴースト」と海賊ミッション船長の冒険譚。

Burroughs (My Education: A Book of Dreams) turns 81 this year, but, much to the delight of loyal readers, his latest fiction continues to display a febrile imagination, corrosive wit and edgy desolation recalling his preeminent early work. This peculiar, short volume is a whimsical hodgepodge, interweaving, among other matters, a natural history of Madagascar; a jeremiad for the environment; a colonial adventure and a takeoff on the Book of Revelations. It opens as Captain Mission, an 18th-century pirate, founds Libertatia, a utopian colony on Madagascar dedicated to protecting the indigenous landscape and lemur population (lemurs are known by island natives as "ghosts"). When international bureaucrats conspire to decimate the colony, overpopulate the island and plunder its flora and fauna ("the Garden of Lost Chances," preserved for 160 million years since the island split from mainland Africa), a series of fantastic, ancient plagues are released, destroying much of the earth. This strange and fragmented story presents?in supple prose that requires no parental advisory?an environmentalist twist to Burroughs's quintessential theme: the cosmic struggle between bureaucratic Control and the embattled, individual soul.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

An adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called 'the only American writer possessed with genius'. A potent cocktail of Burroughs trademark concerns - drugs, paranoia and lemurs, this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation.
--このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

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. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。