{"product_id":"the-burroughs-file-9780872861527","title":"The Burroughs File","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of writings by the sardonic William Burroughs, author of \"Naked Lunch\". These malefic and mordant reports on life are mostly gathered from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" … his Swiftian vision of a processed, prepackaged life, of a kind of electrochemical totalitarianism, often evokes the black laughter of hilarious horror.\"—\u003cem\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Burroughs may be our only writer whose socio-political apacalyptica transcend both paranoia and triviality; his imagination is superb, his ear savagely satiric.\"—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.\"—Jack Kerouac\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurroughs in Tangier, Paul Bowles; whoever can pick up a frying pan owns death, Alan Ansen. Part 1 The white subway: unfinished cigarette; distant hand lifted; the conspiracy; ancient face gone out; who is the third that walks beside you?; the last post - danger ahead; Palm Sunday tape; the beginning is also the end; the coldspring news; who is the walks beside you written 3rd?; St Louis return; composite text. Part 2 The old movies: word authority more habit forming than heroin; so who owns death TV; abstract; fear and the monkey; distant heels; pages from chaos; 23 skiddoo; old photographer; the inferential kid; last awning flaps on the pier; the bay of pigs; file ticker tape; the moving times. Part 3 Pages from scrapbooks: the old farmer's almanac; book of hours; John Brady's book. Part 4 The retreat diaries. Part 5 Cobble stone gardens.","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742343463255,"sku":"9780872861527","price":14.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780872861527.jpg?v=1758384389","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-burroughs-file-9780872861527","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}