The Job

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Presents the author's incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing. Zusammenfassung Presents the author's incisive, paranoiac, maddened and maddening worldview in interviews interspersed with stories and other writing.

Product details

• Authors: William Burroughs, William S Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, Daniel Odier
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.2008
• EAN: 9780141189857
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118985-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Short Stories, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General