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The Burroughs file / William S. Burroughs.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.U75 B8 1984
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, 1984.
- Summary:
- Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his ""insurrectionary sense of America's underside," as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice.
- Also included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: The Book of Hours, John Brady's Book, and The Old Farmer's Almanac.
- ISBN:
- 087286152X
- OCLC:
- 10696218
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