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Rub Out the Words : The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-10006171142X
ISBN-139780061711428
eBay Product ID (ePID)28038205072
Product Key Features
Book TitleRuB Out the Words : the Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1959-1974
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLetters, General, American / General, Poetry, Literary
Publication Year2012
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight25.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-371022
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813/.54 B
Synopsis"Burroughs's voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American." -Joan Didion "Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift." -Jack Kerouac Carefully edited from more than 1000 of his personal correspondences, Rub Out the Words is a collection of 300 of the best letters of Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, written between 1959 and 1974. A truly remarkable compendium, it offers an eye-opening and insightful look into the artistic process and complex personal life of the legendary literary outlaw in the post-Beat era-providing a new understanding and appreciation of an author who stood alongside Paul Bowles and Charles Bukowski as one of the most creative and rebellious American artists of the 20th century., William S. Burroughs was one of the twentieth century s most iconoclastic literary and artistic figures, an inimitable writer whose groundbreaking work in novels such as Junky and Naked Lunch forever altered the shape of American culture. Now, in this long anticipated collection, editor Bill Morgan takes readers through Burroughs correspondence from the early sixties through the mid-seventies, in more than three hundred letters that document Burroughs steady drift away from the Beat circle and that witness an era in which he became the center of a new coterie of creative people who would establish his reputation as an influential artistic and cultural leader beyond the literary world, toward multimedia. Written to recipients such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Burroughs son, Billy Burroughs Jr., these letters shed new light on the writer s controversial artistic process and literary experimentation, as well as his complex personal life. Here are letters to new friends in North Africa and Eur-ope partners in Burroughs expatriate life including Paul Bowles, Ian Sommerville, Michael Portman, Alex Trocchi, and the surrealist artist Brion Gysin, who became a close confidant and whose cut-up method would deeply influence Burroughs writing. An intimate glimpse into the private life of an often misunderstood artist, Rub Out the Words is also an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century s most uncompromising literary personalities."
LC Classification NumberPS3552.U75Z48 2012
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