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grey & black hardbound 8vo. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. vg+ near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. minor sunfading at spine bottom, edges a a few tiny spots. few spots on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. couple of tears to spine bottom, rear corners rubbed & chipped. not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~ first edition so stated. first printing ( # 1 in # line). viii+629p. glossy b&w photo illustrations. notes. index. biography. autobiography. beat literature. surrealism. dr benway. inspector lee. ~ This is the story of a true renegade, an outlaw in every sense. Burroughs has been in jail. He killed his wife. He's a junkie who has been forced to spend much of his life in exile, always on the run. His books have been banned. He was already openly homosexual at a time when homosexuality was a criminal offense. His life reads like a countercultural adventure story: from an upper~middle~class upbringing in St. Louis and an education at Harvard to the beginnings of the Beat movement, carefree yet sinister, in New York; the strange death of his wife in Mexico City; a quest for the ultimate hallucinogenic drug in the jungles of South America: out~of~body experiences in the famous Beat Hotel in Paris; induction into the staid Institute of Arts and Letters; and adulation by the young everywhere. Literary Outlaw is full of some of the most unlikely characters ever to find their way between the covers of a single book: Allen Ginsberg, Mary McCarthy, Timothy Leary, Jack Kerouac, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, Maurice Girodias, Mick Jagger, Malcolm Cowley, Paul Bowles, and Dennis Hopper, to name only a few. Literary Outlaw is, as much as anything, a history of the avant~garde in America. If the book sometimes reads as much like autobiography as biography, it is no accident: Burroughs has worked closely with the author, neither hiding nor sanitizing details of a life that sometimes seems wilder and more improbable than his own inventions. N° de ref. del artículo 7191201
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