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Literary outlaw : the life and times of William S. Burroughs

By Ted , Burroughs , William S.; Morgan

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2012
ISBN
978-0-393-34324-3, 0393343243
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2039712 bytes)
Pages
714\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
-- 1914-1997.;NovelistsAmerican -- 20th century -- Biography.;Beat generaAmerican.BurroughsWilliam S.

Description

Overview: With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs’s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure. Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and illicit sex—and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life, such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends—Allen Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them—in this riveting story of an iconoclast.

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