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''He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.''

A deliberately severed finger, a junky''s Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamous Beat legend.

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The Finger

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    A Paperback / softback by William S. Burroughs

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 22/02/2018
      ISBN13: 9780241339077, 978-0241339077
      ISBN10: 0241339073
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''He felt a sudden deep pity for the finger joint that lay there on the dresser, a few drops of blood gathering around the white bone.''

      A deliberately severed finger, a junky''s Christmas miracle and a Tangier con-artist, among others, feature in these hallucinogenic sketches and stories from the infamous Beat legend.

      Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York''s underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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