WILLIAM BURROUGHS by Barry Miles ( 9780753507070 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

WILLIAM BURROUGHS
EL HOMBRE INVISIBLE

By:

Barry Miles

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0753507072

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9780753507070

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Publisher:

EBURY PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

5 September, 2002

Pages:

288

Description:

teacher and elder statesman to the Beats: William Burroughs remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the twentieth century.

Synopsis:

Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to the Beats: William Burroughs remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the twentieth century.After killing his wife in a bizarre shooting accident, Burroughs moved to Tangier where he lived in a male brothel and wrote his celebrated bestseller Naked Lunch - in Newsweek's words 'A masterpiece. A cry from Hell' and spent much of the rest of his life in self-imposed exile from the United States. Following Burroughs' death in August 1997, Barry Miles updated his riveting, highly readable and unconventional biography of this legendary provocateur and all-round thorn in the side of the establishment.

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1x8 b/w illustration section

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Imprint:

Virgin Books

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