With William Burroughs

With William Burroughs
ISBN-10
0312147678
ISBN-13
9780312147679
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
1996-11-15
Publisher
Macmillan
Authors
William S. Burroughs, Victor Bockris

Description

William Burroughs, the eccentric, brilliant artist who burned a bridge with logic and wrote the classic "Naked Lunch", continues to fascinate readers. Now the artist's long-time friend, writer Victor Bockris, records for all objective time the choice private and public, hallucinatory and prescient, utterances of Burroughs and his famous circle. 60 photos.

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