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The ‘Priest’, They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
Forfatter: Caveney, Graham225,00kr Legg til i handlekurvThe ‘Priest’, They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs.
Bloomsbury, London 1998, 8vo, orig. bind med omslag, 224 s., engelsk tekst, rikt illustrert.
«William S. Burroughs died in August 1997 at the age of 83. A junkie for much of his life, he nonetheless survived all the younger Beat poets, who saw him as their mentor. […] The story of Burroughs’s life — from his ivy-league background through his early years of low-life in New York, his years of exile in Tangier, Paris and London following his accidental killing of his wife, his return to New York and old age in Kansas — in interwoven with an examination of his writing and of his collaborations with, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, David Cronenberg, Tom Waits and Kurt Cobain.»