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Author: William S. Burroughs
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: William S. Burroughs
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9780715636343
Category : Autobiographical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Contains two autobiographical novels: "Speed" follows Billy as he hustles for dope and money, crashing in garbage-strewn apartments; and "Kentucky Ham" takes him from the squalor of the East Village crash pads to his father's literary hideaway in Tangier. These autobiographical novels tell a story of generational isolation.

Author: William S. Burroughs
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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These two autobiographical novels trace the author's drug-culture underworld odyssey from the home of his guardians in Florida to New York's infamous East Village.

Author: William S. Burroughs. Jr.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1933368381
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Being the son of counter-culture author William S. Burroughs is bound to be a trial. After all, the man who frequented lesbian dives and had a fascination with firearms couldn't possibly make that great of a father. Perhaps inevitably, William Jr. (called Billy) referred to himself as "cursed from birth" and in the book of the same name editor David Ohle collects parts of Billy's third and unfinished novel Prakriti Junction, his last journals and poems, and correspondence and conversations to recreate this tortured life. Endowed with the sufferings — but not the patience — of Job, Billy's life was often characterized by tragedy and frustration, although there were also pockets of success and levity. More than just the memoir of a casualty of the Beat Generation, Cursed From Birth provides rare insight in Billy's father, as well as his scene, friends, and times. It also provides an all-too-familiar story of familial difficulties that anyone with difficult parents can understand and appreciate.

Author: Joe Cardello
Publisher: Daily Racing Form
ISBN: 9780970014764
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Since the inclusion of Beyer Speed Figures into the Daily Racing Form in 1992, horseplayers have had a new tool to use in their day-to-day handicapping. Learn what Beyer Speed Figures are ,how they consistently point to the fastest horses in each race, and how to apply them correctly to produce winning tickets.

Author: Ellen Hopkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442471816
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Based on a real-life event and written in verse, this novel relates the disturbing story of one girl's descent into addiction.

Author: William S. Burroughs
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006209677X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 817

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William S. Burroughs was one of the twentieth century’s most iconoclastic literary and artistic figures, an inimitable writer whose groundbreaking work in novels such as Junky and Naked Lunch forever altered the shape of American culture. Now, in this long anticipated collection, editor Bill Morgan takes readers through Burroughs’ correspondence from the early sixties through the mid-seventies, in more than three hundred letters that document Burroughs’ steady drift away from the Beat circle and that witness an era in which he became the center of a new coterie of creative people who would establish his reputation as an influential artistic and cultural leader beyond the literary world, toward multimedia. Written to recipients such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Burroughs’ son, Billy Burroughs Jr., these letters shed new light on the writer’s controversial artistic process and literary experimentation, as well as his complex personal life. Here are letters to new friends in North Africa and Eur-ope—partners in Burroughs’ expatriate life—including Paul Bowles, Ian Sommerville, Michael Portman, Alex Trocchi, and the surrealist artist Brion Gysin, who became a close confidant and whose “cut-up method” would deeply influence Burroughs’ writing. An intimate glimpse into the private life of an often misunderstood artist, Rub Out the Words is also an unforgettable portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most uncompromising literary personalities.

Author: C. E. Morgan
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561

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A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Fiction • A Recipient of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction • A Finalist for the Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • One of New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly • GQ • The New York Times (Selected by Dwight Garner) • NPR • The Wall Street Journal • San Francisco Chronicle • Refinery29 • Booklist • Kirkus Reviews • Commonweal Magazine "In its poetic splendor and moral seriousness, The Sport of Kings bears the traces of Faulkner, Morrison, and McCarthy. . . . It is a contemporary masterpiece."—San Francisco Chronicle Hailed by The New Yorker for its “remarkable achievements,” The Sport of Kings is an American tale centered on a horse and two families: one white, a Southern dynasty whose forefathers were among the founders of Kentucky; the other African-American, the descendants of their slaves. It is a dauntless narrative that stretches from the fields of the Virginia piedmont to the abundant pastures of the Bluegrass, and across the dark waters of the Ohio River; from the final shots of the Revolutionary War to the resounding clang of the starting bell at Churchill Downs. As C. E. Morgan unspools a fabric of shared histories, past and present converge in a Thoroughbred named Hellsmouth, heir to Secretariat and a contender for the Triple Crown. Newly confronted with one another in the quest for victory, the two families must face the consequences of their ambitions, as each is driven---and haunted---by the same, enduring question: How far away from your father can you run? A sweeping narrative of wealth and poverty, racism and rage, The Sport of Kings is an unflinching portrait of lives cast in the shadow of slavery and a moral epic for our time.

Author: Sara Havens
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105119130
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Sara Havens is The Bar Belle for LEO Weekly and writes about everything from the Louisville, Ky., nightlife and hangover cures to the latest in bars, cocktails and watered-down American swill. A personality-driven column that runs every other week in LEO, The Bar Belle was created in 2006, which is, ironically, the year Sara's mother stopped reading the paper. The Bar Belle was named Best Column (for a circulation under 50,000) at the 2011 AltWeekly Awards. This book features 100 of her best columns from 2006-2010.

Author: Maurer Maurer
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428915850
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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