City Lights Books onix@onixsuite.com 20130217 eng

GCDS-9780872861527 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100986640 02 087286152X 03 9780872861527 15 9780872861527 BC 1 A01 Burroughs, William S. William S. Burroughs <p>William Burroughs (1915-1997) is widely reconized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: <em>Junky</em>, <em>Naked Lunch</em>, <em>The Soft Machine</em>, and <em>Cities of the Red Night</em>.</p> 01 eng 224 01 <P>Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of <em>Naked Lunch</em> 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.</p><P>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.</p> 02 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... 08 "...his Swiftian vision of a processed, prepackaged life, of a kind of electrochemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror." Playboy 08 "Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift." Jack Kerouac 08 "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 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100986640/images/87286100986640L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100986640/images/87286100986640S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100986640 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19840201 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19840201 01 02 15.95 USD