Hardcover William S. Burroughs Reader Word Virus Book

Hardcover Word Virus The William S. Burroughs Reader First Edition First Printing 1998 Edited by James Grauerholz al& Ira Silverberg Introduction by Ann Douglass 532 pages See photos for condition of the dust jacket and small cut on binding. Otherwise the book is in excellent condition. No spoken word CD included. Check before bundling with other books due to weight. With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious "routines" to the experimental cut-up novels to Cities of the Red Night and The Cat Inside. Beautifully edited and complemented by James Grauerholz's illuminating biographical essays, Word Virus charts Burroughs's major themes and places the work in the context of the life. It is an excellent tool for the scholar and a delight for the general reader. Throughout a career that spanned half of the twentieth century, William S. Burroughs managed continually to be a visionary among writers. When he died in 1997, the world of letters lost its most elegant outsider. # beat generation, 50s, autobiography, fiction, visual artist, essays, short stories, collections, anthologies Please check out my closet for more books