Ghost of Chance

Ghost of Chanceis an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, 'the only American writer possessed by genius.' While tripping through the author's trademark concerns--drugs, paranoia, and lemurs, this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can. Born in 1914,William S. Burroughsis the author ofJunky, Naked Lunch andThe Soft Machineand many other contemporary classics. A major figure of 20th century American literature, Burroughs died in 1997.