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02926aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 CB5E7D38680311E588D327A2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151001010245 008 140512s2015 nyuac b 001 0beng d 020 $a 9781455511938 020 $a 1455511935 035 $a (OCoLC)879583410 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d EYD $d OCLCF $d QBX $d IOK $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PS3552.U75 $b Z7427 2015 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Miles, Barry, $d 1943- $e author. 245 10 $a Call me Burroughs : $b a life / $c Barry Miles. 250 $a First trade edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Twelve, $c 2015. 300 $a xx, 716 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 520 $a "Fifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, "William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius." Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, CALL ME BURROUGHS is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a An education -- The Beat Generation -- Down Mexico way -- The classic stations of the Earth -- The City of Light -- London town -- Burlington Billy -- The prodigal son returns -- Return to roots. 600 10 $a Burroughs, William S., $d 1914-1997. 650 0 $a Novelists, American $y 20th century $v Biography. 600 17 $a Burroughs, William S., $d 1914-1997. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00032398 650 7 $a Novelists, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01039688 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 856 42 $z Additional Information at Google Books $u http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1455511935 941 $a 1 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20151001051306.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CB5E7D38680311E588D327A2DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IOKInitiate Another SILO Locator Search