Title: Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Format: First trade paperback printing

Condition: Good plus, edge wear and clorner creasing, spine has reading creases, light scuffing on rear cover. Softcover.

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Publishing Info: Avon, New York, 1990

Language: English

ISBN - 13: 9780380708826

 

Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, nihilist, homosexual crusader, and brilliant writer, William S. Burroughs was the patron saint and Prince of Darkness of the Beats of the 1950s. His ground-breaking avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shocked the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and sexual perversion—and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tim Morgan's biography of Burroughs captures one of the most lionized artist/criminals of our times—a violent, reckless genius whose history is as bizarre as his fiction. A rebel—hero, Burroughs symbolized the anti—authoritarian cause for three generations of the young and disillusioned—exploring the murkiest depths of human terror and degradation in his art—and in his life.

Literary Outlaw is a wild ride through the life of a man who became an icon for the counterculture and whose perverse and decadent life mirrors his remarkable art.

 

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William S. Burroughs interview excerpt