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001 2013032565
003 DLC
005 20150204080945.0
008 131024s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013032565
020 $a9781455511952 (hardback)
020 $z9781478981817 (audiobook)
020 $z9781611137613 (audio download)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS3552.U75$bZ7427 2014
082 00 $a813/.54$aB$223
084 $aBIO007000$aHIS037070$aHIS036070$2bisacsh
100 1 $aMiles, Barry,$d1943-$eauthor.
245 10 $aCall Me Burroughs :$bA Life /$cBarry Miles.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bTwelve,$c2014.
300 $axviii, 718 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject. "--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 10 $aBurroughs, William S.,$d1914-1997.
650 0 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 21st Century.$2bisacsh