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The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959
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Edited and with an Introduction by Oliver Harris
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An intimate chronicle of the tumultuous life and literary transformation
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of one of America's most daring writers.
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Eminence grise of the international avant garde, dark prophet and
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blackest of satirists, William S. Burroughs has had a range of influence
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rivaled by few living writers. This volume of his correspondence vividly
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documents the personal and cultural history through which Burroughs
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developed, revealing clues to illuminate his life and keys to open up his
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texts. More than that, it shows how letter-writing was itself integral to
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his life and to his fiction-making.
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Beginning as surprisingly formal notes from the road to his friends Allen
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Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, the letters gradually deepen in substance and
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style. Then, in Tangier, comes a dramatic shift in voice and vision and
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the explosive, distinctive letters that will become <Naked Lunch.>
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Letters were lifelines for Burroughs the outcast, and works-in-progress
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for Burroughs the writer, and they track his turbulent journey across two
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decades and three continents.
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"A handsome volume....Readers will find this new volume of letters an
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excellent troduction to Burroughs' early work."
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-The Washington Post Book World
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"Sheds light on both the personal demons and lacerating misanthropy that
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inspired Burroughs' brilliant literary highjinks." -Entertainment
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Weekly
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William S. Burroughs is the author of numerous books, including <The Cat
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Inside> (Viking). He is a member of the American Academy and Institute of
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Arts and Letters and lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
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Oliver Harris gained a Double First in English at Christ Church, Oxford,
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and wrote his doctoral dissertation on William S. Burroughs. He is
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currently a lecturer in American Literature at the University of Keele
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and lives in Oxfordshire, England.
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June
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Biography
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5H x 8H 512 pp.
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0-14-009452-0 $11.95
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