Wild Boys: a Book of the Dead

New York: Grove Press, 1973. First Printing Stated . Mass Market. Very Good. 4 1/4" X 7. 184 Pages. No. B-370. First Evergreen Black Cat Editiion stated. Small crease to bottom of front cover. Even though this book has been stored properly and cared for it is beginning to show signs of age-tanning. No marks or stamps and reasonably tight. Beyond this are flawless text pages. Burroughs's genius is for a bare, erotic frenzy that careens in and out of logic, or twists in and out of fantasy. Burroughs has the gift for making you hear, smell, and feel psychic process as a physical force. This is a book of illusions, written as a series of films of past, present, and future projected simultaneously on several screens. There are films of memory, and funny flicks of a future American crusade against the wild boys . There are even porny, penny arcade peep shows. But what explodes from every film is Burroughs's passion for purging the soul of old torments. Contents in 18 Chapters: Tio Mate Smiles, The Chief Smiles, Old Sarge Smiles, And Bury the Bread Deep in a Sty, The Penny Arcade Peep Show, Le Gran Luxe, The Penny Arcade Peep Show, The Miracle of the Rose, A Silver Smile, The Frisco Kid, The Penny Arcade Peep Show, The Dead Child, Just Call Me Joe, Mother and I Would Like to Know, The Wild Boys, The Penny Arcade Peep Show, The Penny Arcade Peep Show, and The Wild Boys Smile.