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Call me Burroughs : a life / Barry Miles

By:

Miles, Barry, (1943 -)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Twelve , 2014Edition: First trade editionDescription: 716 p. : illus. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781455511938

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 BUR

LOC classification:

PS3552.U75 Z7427 2014

Summary: Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		048367

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel Naked Lunch, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In CALL ME BURROUGHS, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy.

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