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Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs
by Ted Morgan
Published by Norton
714 pgs, b&w, 6" x 9"
$24.95
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"With a new preface as well as a final chapter on William S. Burroughs’s last years, the acclaimed Literary Outlaw
is the only existing full biography of an extraordinary figure.
Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, and brilliant writer, Burroughs was
the patron saint of the Beats. His avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch
shook up the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse
and illicit sex - and resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on
obscenity. Burroughs continued to revolutionize literature with novels
like The Soft Machine and to shock with the events in his life,
such as the accidental shooting of his wife, which haunted him until
his death. Ted Morgan captures the man, his work, and his friends - Allen
Ginsberg and Paul Bowles among them -in this riveting story of an
iconoclast."