Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway , Cobblestone Gardens , and The Retreat Diaries , this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his "insurrectionary sense of America's underside," as Tom Carson ...
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Trenchant writings by that sardonic "hombre invisible," William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway , Cobblestone Gardens , and The Retreat Diaries , this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his "insurrectionary sense of America's underside," as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice . Also included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: The Book of Hours , John Brady's Book , and The Old Farmer's Almanac . " ... his Swiftian vision of a processed, prepackaged life, of a kind of electrochemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror."-- Playboy "Burroughs may be our only writer whose socio-political apacalyptica transcend both paranoia and triviality; his imagination is superb, his ear savagely satiric."-- Kirkus Reviews "Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift."--Jack Kerouac William Burroughs (1915-1997) is widely recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: Junky , Naked Lunch , The Soft Machine , and Cities of the Red Night .
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Very good. Introductory Notes by James Grauerholz. 8vo. In glossy illustrated wrappers. 227 pages, with b/w photographic images and illustrations from the Cut-Up Scrapbooks. Small scrape on rear cover. No names or marks.
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Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall Very good with age-darkening to paper. No statement of printing, presumed first trade paperback. Flat spine has no cracks or creasing. No markings.
