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In 1971 City Lights Books published Plymell's first prose work, The Last of the Moccasins. The critic Hugh Fox wrote that Plymell's book was a "case-book/textbook model of contemporary style that Americanizes Joyce, Genet, Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet and even stylistically explicates the whole dizzying language-state of Naked Lunch Burroughs. The only 'Beat' novels that even approach the stylistic stature of The Last of the Moccasins are, in fact, Naked Lunch and (to a much lesser degree), Kerouac's Doctor Sax." William Burroughs called it a "manifesto of ashes. A very readable manifesto." On one level the book is the story of Plymell's experiences in and around San Francisco in the 1960s.
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