''Port of Saints'' is a novel by Beat Generation author

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur ...

. First published in 1973, it was the last major work Burroughs wrote during his self-imposed exile in

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during the late 1960s and early 1970s. One of Burroughs' shorter novels, the book utilizes characters from numerous earlier works, and also introduces characters that would re-appear later in the Burroughs canon. Described as an "erotic fantasy", the novel (as explained by Burroughs scholar Jenny Skerl) consists of several plotlines shuffled together, with the "main" plot loosely dealing with a group of wild boys that seek to rewrite history by travelling through time to various times and places. Burroughs spent the rest of the decade writing shorter works and essays. His following novel was ''

Cities of the Red Night ''Cities of the Red Night'' is a 1981 novel by American author William S. Burroughs. His first full-length novel since '' The Wild Boys'' (1971), it is part of his final trilogy of novels, known as The Red Night Trilogy, followed by '' The Place o ...

'', published in 1981. The same year ''Port of Saints'' was released, Burroughs also published the short story collection '' Exterminator!'' and several chapbooks. A revised edition of the novel was published in 1980.

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