With the premiere of David Cronenberg's adaptation of Burrows' Naked Lunch, a new wave of fascination has been generated for this fierce anti-establishment crusader--"the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed of genius" (Norman Mailer). Photos.
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With the premiere of David Cronenberg's adaptation of Burrows' Naked Lunch, a new wave of fascination has been generated for this fierce anti-establishment crusader--"the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed of genius" (Norman Mailer). Photos.
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photographs. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 263 p. Audience: General/trade. Brand new, unread, pristine book and dust jacket. In this affable and affectionate biography, Barry Miles, a friend of Burroughs since 1964, covers the controversial writer's addictions, idiosyncrasies and personal relationships, as well as his writings. Drawing on Burroughs's correspondences and on his own experiences with him, Miles gives a cursory account of Burroughs's early life in St. Louis, where he was born in 1914, and his years in Latin America, Paris, Tangiers and London. But he updates other biographies with a chapter on Burroughs's life in Lawrence, Kansas, where he settled in 1984, and with a discussion of his impact on modern culture. Miles is best when considering the genesis and intermingling of Burroughs's fiction and nonfiction.
