Last Words: the Final Journals of William S. Burroughs - Hardcover

Burroughs, William S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802116574 ISBN 13: 9780802116574

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000

Synopsis

Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs is the most intimate book ever written by William S. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and one of the most celebrated literary outlaws of our time. Laid out as diary entries of the last nine months of Burroughs's life, Last Words spans the realms of cultural criticism, personal memoir, and fiction. Classic Burroughs concerns -- literature, U.S. drug policy, the state of humanity, his love for his cats -- permeate the book. Most significantly, Last Words contains some of the most personal work Burroughs has ever written, a final reckoning with his life and regrets, and his reflections on the deaths of his friends Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary. It is a poignant portrait of the man, his life, and his creative process -- one that never quit, not even in the shadow of death.

About this title

Synopsis:

Documenting the final months of this literary and countercultural icon, personal reflections confront the state of the human race and a host of political and social ills, while meditating on his own aproaching death.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0802116574
• ISBN 13: 9780802116574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 273
• Editor: Grauerholz James