Bibliograph

Call me Burroughs, a life, Barry Miles

Type

Label

Call me Burroughs, a life, Barry Miles

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [637]-691) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Call me Burroughs

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

861554600

Responsibility statement

Barry Miles

Sub title

a life

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. "--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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