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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Choice Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Miles, Barry, 1943-     Subjects     Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.     Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Beat generation -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Miles, Barry, 1943-       by title:      Call me Burroughs : ...       by call number:      921 B972m     Search the Web     Miles, Barry, 1943-     Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.     Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.     Beat generation -- Biography.       MARC Display

Call me Burroughs : a life / Barry Miles. by Miles, Barry, 1943- Twelve, 2014. Call #: 921 B972m Subjects Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.   Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.   Beat generation -- Biography. ISBN:  9781455511952 (hc.) 1455511951 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  xviii, 718 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [637]-691) and index. 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. 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. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Biography 921 B972m Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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