The Yage Letters Redux - Penguin Modern Classics

William Burroughs closed his classic debut novel, Junky, by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called 'Yage' which he believed transmitted telepathic powers, a drug that could be 'the final fix'. In The Yage Letters - a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia and epistolary novel - he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time and space, to derange his senses - the perfect drug for the author of the wild decentred books that followed. Years later, Ginsberg writes back as he follows in Burroughs' footsteps, and the drug worse and more profound than he had imagined.

ISBN:	9780141189864
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	06 Nov 2008
DEWEY:	818.5403
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	126
Weight:	150g
Height:	199mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	11mm

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