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Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
Gentleman Junkie The Life and Legacy of William S Burroughs
Author: Graham Caveney
William S. Burroughs, founding father of America's counterculture, was born in 1914 into a wealthy St. Louis family. He originally planned to be a doctor but soon found another calling: literary outlaw and professional iconoclast. During his youth, he led a life almost as strange as his writing, drifting from job to job -- as bartender, priv...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780316137256
ISBN-10: 0316137251
Publication Date: 6/1998
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
Book Type: Hardcover
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