Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
- ISBN-10
- 0802116574
- ISBN-13
- 9780802116574
- Series
- Last Words
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 273
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic
- Authors
- William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz
Description
Documenting the final months of this literary and countercultural icon, personal reflections confront the state of the human race and a host of political and social ills, while meditating on his own aproaching death.
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- 2019
- 239 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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