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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140094547

ISBN-139780140094541

eBay Product ID (ePID)54759

Product Key Features

Book TitleMy Education : a Book of Dreams

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Literary, Artists, Architects, Photographers

Publication Year1996

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorWilliam S. Burroughs

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight6 Oz

Item Length7.7 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN96-156981

ReviewsPRAISE FOR MY EDUCATION: "Die-hard fans will no doubt scoop this up..." - - Kirkus Reviews "The noted Burroughs himself is the central character of his first novel in seven years, revisiting the site of hundreds of his dreams, a landscape ''where I get my best sets and characters.'' Numerous family members, friends and celebrities from the author's past appear-Mick Jagger, L. Ron Hubbard, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac-and locales vary wildly, from Manhattan to Panama, ancient Rome to the planet Venus." -- Publishers Weekly PRAISE FOR WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: "The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius." --Norman Mailer "Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another." --Jack Kerouac "He's a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what's on the end of the fork . . . the truth." --J. G. Ballard "Burroughs was the last great avatar of literary modernism..." -- Will Self "A creator of grim fairy tales for adults, Burroughs spoke to our nightmare fears and, still worse, to our nightmare longings. . . . And more than any other postwar wordsmith, he bridged generations; popularity in the youth culture is greater now than during the heady days of the Beats." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

Grade ToUP

SynopsisMy Education is William S. Burroughs's final collection, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, written over several decades and as personal and 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 rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book, dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves. "Mr. Burroughs has lost none of his irreverence or wit, but in recent years he has acquired an elegant, elegiac tone." - The New York Times

LC Classification NumberPS3552.U75M9 1996