The Western Lands
- Book ID:
- 8195
- Title:
- The Western Lands
- Author:
- 'Burroughs, William S'
- ISBN number:
- 0330305115
- Publisher name:
- Picador, Pan Books
- Place of publication:
- London, England
- Edition number:
- 1988
- Book type:
- Paperback
- First edition date:
- 1987
- Pages:
- 258
- Dewey decimal number:
- 808.83 BUR
- Dust jacket:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Photographs:
- No
- Illustrations:
- No
- Bibliography:
- No
- Height (cm):
- 19.7
- Width (cm):
- 13
- Notes:
The final volume of a trilogy comprising this, 'Cities of the Red Night', published in 1981 and 'The Place of Dead Roads' in 1984
The Author acknowledges Norman Mailer and his 'Ancient Evenings', for inspiration for this novel
This is the author's Book of the Dead, which draws on Ancient Egyptian Mythology for its symbolic structure.
Despairing apprehensions of modern reality, to bathos and high comedy
A journey beyond death