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010 $a 2006019071
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024 3 $a9781933368382
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100 1 $aBurroughs, William S.,$d1947-1981.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83217873
245 10 $aCursed from birth :$bthe short, unhappy life of William S. Burroughs, Jr. /$ccompiled, edited, and introduced by David Ohle.
260 $aBrooklyn, NY :$bSoft Skull Press ;$a[Berkeley, Calif.] :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c2006.
300 $a210 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aOriginally published: New York : Grove Press, 2001.
520 1 $a"Born in 1947 to the writer William S. Burroughs and his common-law wife Joan Vollmer, William S. Burroughs, Jr. (known as Billy Jr.), would later describe himself as "your cursed-from-birth son." Cursed From Birth is a testimony to the difficulty of living in the turbulent wake of a famous father, his famous and troubled friends, and a lucid, shattering depiction of a life going down the tubes." "Raised by his paternal grandparents in Palm Beach after his mother was killed by his father in a shooting accident, Billy saw his father become suddenly famous for Naked Lunch just as he became a teenager. Billy Jr.'s short life was defined by creating trouble to catch the attention of his father, mourning the death of his mother, descending into alcoholism and drug addiction, and reckoning with it all by beginning his own literary endeavors." "Compiled by writer David Ohle from Burroughs Jr.'s third and unfinished novel Prakriti Junction, his last journals and poems, and correspondence and conversations with those who knew Billy, Cursed from Birth is faithful to Billy's own intentions for a last artistic effort. With the sufferings - but not the patience - of Job, Billy Burroughs's life illustrates the fall of one "whom the gods would destroy"."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aBurroughs, William S.,$d1947-1981.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83217873
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108453
650 0 $aDrug addicts$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102444
650 0 $aAlcoholics$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100974
600 10 $aBurroughs, William S.,$d1914-1997$xFamily.
650 0 $aFathers and sons$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103613
700 1 $aOhle, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90724024
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0615/2006019071.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3552.U752$iZ46 2006