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William S. Burroughs - A Life (Paperback)
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William S. Burroughs - A Life (Paperback)
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Authoritative biography of cult writer and author of NAKED LUNCH,
William Burroughs (1914-1997). It has been 50 years since Norman
Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only
American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by
genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has
taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual
radical political ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media -
Burroughs has written novels, memoirs, technical manuals and
poetry, he has painted, made collages, taken thousands of
photographs, made visual scrapbooks, produced hundreds of hours of
experimental tapes, acted in movies and recorded more CDs than most
rock groups. Made a cult figure by the publication of NAKED LUNCH,
Burroughs was a mentor to the 1960s youth culture. Underground
papers referred to him as 'Uncle Bill' and he ranked alongside Bob
Dylan and the Beatles, Buckminster Fuller and R.D. Laing as one of
the 'gurus' of the youth movement who might just have the secret of
the universe. Based upon extensive research, this biography paints
a new portrait of Burroughs, making him real to the reader and
showing how he was perceived by his contemporaries in all his
guises - from icily distant to voluble drunk. It shows how his
writing was very much influenced by his life situation and by the
people he met on his travels around America and Europe. He was,
beneath it all, a man torn by emotions: his guilt at not visiting
his doting mother; his despair at not responding to reconciliation
attempts from his father; his distance from his brother; the huge
void that separated him from his son; and above all his killing of
his wife, Joan Vollmer.
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