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The Western Lands

The Red Night Trilogy series

Burroughs's eagerly awaited final novel in the trilogy begun with Cities of the Red Night and The Place of Dead Roads is a profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on mortality, loneliness, nuclear peril, and the inextinguishable hope for life after death.

Setting
1980sEgyptUSA
Mood
surreal
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 258 pages

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