The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs

by Daniel Odier, William S. Burroughs

Overview

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:	945,052
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)—guru of the Beat Generation, controversial éminence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet, and blackest of black humor satirists—had a range of influence rivaled by few post-World War II writers. His many books include Naked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, and Interzone.