The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

by Daniel Odier, William S. Burroughs

Overview

A provacative collection of interviews with the guru of the Beat Generation

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140118827
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	03/04/1989
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	1,018,242
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

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.