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The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
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The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs Paperback - 1989

by Daniel Odier; William S. Burroughs

In these interviews, Burroughs tells the gripping story of his drug addiction and cure, and voices his often barbed views on youth, sex, drugs, writing, politics, revolution, the family, silence, organ therapy, money, and prayer.

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The Job is William S. Burroughs at work, attacking our traditional values, condemning what he calls "the American nightmare," and expressing his often barbed views on Scientology, the police, orgone therapy, history, women, writing, poitics, sex, drugs, and death. His conversation splices images of death-by-hanging with elevators and airports, the story of his drug addiction and cure with ideas on the use of hieroglyphs.

From the publisher

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)—guru of the Beat Generation, controversial éminence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet, and blackest of black humor satirists—had a range of influence rivaled by few post-World War II writers. His many books include Naked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, and Interzone.

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  • Title The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
  • Author Daniel Odier; William S. Burroughs
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1989-03-04
  • ISBN 9780140118827 / 0140118829
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.77 x 5.08 x 0.44 in (19.74 x 12.90 x 1.12 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
  • Library of Congress subjects Fiction - Authorship, Beat generation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 88022591
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

William S. Burroughs: was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine. After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.

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