The Job
Interviews with William S. Burroughs
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- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2008
Summary
William Burroughs’ work was dedicated to an assault upon language, traditional values, and all agents of control. Produced at a time when he was at his most extreme and messianic, The Job lays out his abrasive, incisive, paranoiac, maddened, and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing.
On the Beat movement, the importance of the cut-up technique, the press, Scientology, capital punishment, drugs, good and evil, the destruction of nations,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141189857 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141189851 |
| Author: | William S. Burroughs |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.
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