# The Wild Boys

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- Book: [The Wild Boys](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-s-burroughs/the-wild-boys) ([The Wild Boys.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-s-burroughs/the-wild-boys.md))
- Authors: [William S. Burroughs](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-s-burroughs)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-983-3
- Pages: 192
- Published: 2008-11-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this funny, nightmarish masterpiece of imaginative excess, grotesque characters engage in acts of violent one-upmanship, boundless riches mangle a corner of Africa into a Bacchanalian utopia, and technology, flesh and violence fuse with and undo each other. A fragmentary, freewheeling novel, it sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army. The Wild Boys shows why Burroughs is a writer unlike any other, able to make captivating the explicit and horrific.