My Education
A Book of Dreams
$38.64
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2009
Summary
A profoundly personal book detailing Burroughs’s unconscious through his dreams.
My Education is Burroughs’s last novel, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, collected over several decades and as close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary. Always a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141189895 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141189894 |
| Author: | William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2009 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 13mm |
| 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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