The Resource Call me Burroughs : a life, Barry Miles
Call me Burroughs : a life, Barry Miles
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The item Call me Burroughs : a life, Barry Miles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library.
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- Summary
- "Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject. "--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 718 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- An education
- The Beat Generation
- Down Mexico way
- The classic stations of the Earth
- The City of Light
- London town
- Burlington Billy
- The prodigal son returns
- Return to roots
- Isbn
- 9781455511952
- Label
- Call me Burroughs : a life
- Title
- Call me Burroughs
- Title remainder
- a life
- Statement of responsibility
- Barry Miles
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject. "--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Miles, Barry
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.54
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3552.U75
- LC item number
- Z7427 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Burroughs, William S
- Novelists, American
- Label
- Call me Burroughs : a life, Barry Miles
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [637]-691) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- An education -- The Beat Generation -- Down Mexico way -- The classic stations of the Earth -- The City of Light -- London town -- Burlington Billy -- The prodigal son returns -- Return to roots
- Control code
- 1446087
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 718 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781455511952
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013032565
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1446087
- (OCoLC)861554600
- Label
- Call me Burroughs : a life, Barry Miles
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [637]-691) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- An education -- The Beat Generation -- Down Mexico way -- The classic stations of the Earth -- The City of Light -- London town -- Burlington Billy -- The prodigal son returns -- Return to roots
- Control code
- 1446087
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xviii, 718 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781455511952
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013032565
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1446087
- (OCoLC)861554600
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