![]() Biographer and Burroughs editor Miles ( Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats) pens a dense, detailed, yet wonderfully readable and entertaining narrative that illuminates, without sensationalizing, Burroughs’s manifold peculiarities: his avid sexual interest in teenaged boys his use of hashish, hallucinogens, and heroin his petty crimes and drug-dealing his love of casual gunplay (he fatally shot his wife during a game of William Tell) his obsession with other-worldly phenomena, from Scientology, to UFO abductions, to his own theories of giant intergalactic insects that control everything his hair-trigger psychodramas with intimates and complete strangers his embrace of every experience, especially those that appalled and disgusted him the fastidious manners and banker’s wardrobe that made his anti-social provocations seem even more subversive. Karen Foxlee trained and worked as a nurse for most of her adult life and also graduated from university with a degree in creative writing. Her passions are her daughter, writing, day-dreaming, baking, running and swimming in the sea. /rebates/2f97803857535622fOphelia-Marvelous-Boy-Foxlee-Karen-038575356X2fplp&. ![]() ![]() ![]() Call Me Burroughs: A Life by Barry Miles (Twelve) -The pioneering American countercultural writer and artist William Burroughs emerges as his own greatest character in this raucous biography. Karen lives in South East Queensland with her daughter and several animals, including two wicked parrots, who frequently eat parts of her laptop when she isn’t looking. ![]()
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