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ISBN-10: 0140094547
ISBN-13: 9780140094541
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date: 06/01/1996
Dimensions: 7.67" L, 5.00" W, 0.58" H

My Education: A Book of Dreams

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Overview

With My Education: A Book of Dreams William S. Burroughs pushes on into new territory, once again committing the unspeakable crime of questioning the reality structure. Dreams have always been a rich source of imagery in Burroughs’ work. In this book they are a direct and powerful force. Hundreds of dreams – intense, vivid, visionary – form the spiraling core of a unique and haunting journey into perception. Exploring and embodying Burroughs’ provocative ideas on writing, painting, consciousness and creativity, My Education is profoundly personal, and may be as close to a memoir as we will see.

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PRAISE FOR MY EDUCATION:

"Die-hard fans will no doubt scoop this up..." -- Kirkus Reviews

"The noted Burroughs himself is the central character of his first novel in seven years, revisiting the site of hundreds of his dreams, a landscape ``where I get my best sets and characters.'' Numerous family members, friends and celebrities from the author's past appear-Mick Jagger, L. Ron Hubbard, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac-and locales vary wildly, from Manhattan to Panama, ancient Rome to the planet Venus." – Publishers Weekly

PRAISE FOR WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS:

"The only American novelist who may conceivably be possessed by genius." –Norman Mailer

"Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another." –Jack Kerouac

"He's a writer of enormous richness whose books are a kind of attempt to blow up this cozy conspiracy, to allow us to see what's on the end of the fork . . . the truth." –J. G. Ballard

"Burroughs was the last great avatar of literary modernism..." – Will Self

"A creator of grim fairy tales for adults, Burroughs spoke to our nightmare fears and, still worse, to our nightmare longings. . . . And more than any other postwar wordsmith, he bridged generations; popularity in the youth culture is greater now than during the heady days of the Beats." –The Los Angeles Times Book Review

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Details

ISBN-10: 0140094547
ISBN-13: 9780140094541
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date: 06/01/1996
Dimensions: 7.67" L, 5.00" W, 0.58" H
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