The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico
Jorge Garcia-Robles, Daniel C. Schechter (Translator),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by University of Minnesota Press
Jorge Garcia-Robles, Daniel C. Schechter (Translator),Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by University of Minnesota Press
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780816680634 (0816680639)
Publish date: October 1st 2013
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Rating = 3.5 starsThis is grim and gritty stuff, most suitable for those who are familiar with the key figures who represented the Beat Generation. Sex, drugs, corruption, and self-destruction defined life for William Burroughs in Mexico City. And yeah, writing. There was some of that. Very bizarre ...
Waffling between 2.5 and 3, but a magnificent cover.I have never read any Burroughs and based on this weird biographical sketch I suspect I never will. Seemingly fueled by any drug he could get, often in a stupor, with little sense of responsibility, I would have crossed the street to avoid walking...