{"product_id":"call-me-burroughs-a-life-paperback","title":"Call Me Burroughs: A Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarry Miles\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFifty years ago, Norman Mailer asserted, \"William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.\" Few since have taken such literary risks, developed such individual political or spiritual ideas, or spanned such a wide range of media. Burroughs wrote novels, memoirs, technical manuals, and poetry. He painted, made collages, took thousands of photographs, produced hundreds of hours of experimental recordings, acted in movies, and recorded more CDs than most rock bands. Burroughs was the original cult figure of the Beat Movement, and with the publication of his novel \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e, which was originally banned for obscenity, he became a guru to the 60s youth counterculture. In \u003ci\u003eCall Me Burroughs\u003c\/i\u003e, biographer and Beat historian Barry Miles presents the first full-length biography of Burroughs to be published in a quarter century-and the first one to chronicle the last decade of Burroughs's life and examine his long-term cultural legacy. Written with the full support of the Burroughs estate and drawing from countless interviews with figures like Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, and Burroughs himself, \u003ci\u003eCall Me Burroughs\u003c\/i\u003e is a rigorously researched biography that finally gets to the heart of its notoriously mercurial subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Miles\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of many seminal books on popular culture, including the authorized biography of Paul McCartney, \u003ci\u003ePaul McCartney: Many Years from Now\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eGinsberg: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWilliam Burroughs: El Hombre Invisible\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eJack Kerouac: King of the Beats\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963\u003c\/i\u003e. He also co-edited the Revised Text Edition of \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch. \u003c\/i\u003e Miles was born in Cirencester, England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.9 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772266250528,"sku":"9781455511938","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4eb37b1737060fa984ed868e223951cc.webp?v=1780402005","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/call-me-burroughs-a-life-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}