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Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Like New
Listed - A year ago
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Ships From - Florida
Est. Publication Date - Jan 1998
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The story of Burroughs life, from his Ivy League background, through his early years of lowlifes in New York, his years of exile in Tangier, Paris and London, following his accidental killing of his wife, his return to New York, and old age in Kansas is interwoven with an examination of his writing, and of his collaboration with others. Caveney succeeds in explaining the enigma of a man who behaves like a gentleman, and quoted the Buddha in Rimbaud as his literary mentors, while enjoying a lifelong fascination with drugs – guns Dash knives – pornography, and criminals of every kind of low life.
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The 'priest', They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780747533290
Publisher Description
A portrait of the iconoclastic literary pioneer describes his early life and education, his growing addiction to heroin, his role in the Beat movement, his landmark works, and his influence on the lat...
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