{"product_id":"9780872861527","title":"The Burroughs File","description":"Author: William S. Burroughs\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780872861527\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: City Lights Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jan 2001\u003cbr\u003ePages: 227 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrenchant writings by that sardonic \"\"hombre invisible,\"\" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his \"\"insurrectionary sense of America's underside,\" as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles, and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: The Book of Hours, John Brady's Book, and The Old Farmer's Almanac.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...his Swiftian vision of a processed, prepackaged life, of a kind of electrochemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror.\" -\u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Burroughs may be our only writer whose socio-political apacalyptica transcend both paranoia and triviality; his imagination is superb, his ear savagely satiric.\" -Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.\" -Jack Kerouac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Burroughs (1915-1997) is widely recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. His books include: Junky, Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and Cities of the Red Night.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919263907998,"sku":"ING-9780872861527","price":33.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780872861527.jpg?v=1782809471","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780872861527","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}