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'Burroughs's contact with cats put him in touch with himself' Harper's Bazaar
There is an unexpected side to William Burroughs the author of weird and disturbing fictions had a great fondness for cats. This is his earnest appreciation of the cats he knew, a record of his dreams of cats, and a meditation on the long, mysterious relationship between cats and their human hosts. In The Cat Inside, Burroughs is touching when writing of the many strays he took in over the years, disdainful of dogs ('self-righteous as a lynch mob'), always erudite and surprisingly caring it is a genuine revelation, for Burroughs fans and cat lovers alike.
'Heartwarming anecdotes . . . Burroughs ventures galaxies away from his usual twisted literary turf' Time
RRP: $24.95
| ISBN 13: | 9780141189901 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 112 |
| Dimensions: | 198 x 128mm |
| Released: | 01/10/2009 |
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William Seward Burroughs, (February 5 1914 August 2 1997) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major post-modernist author who affected popular culture as well as literature. He is considered to be one of the most culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century.
Burroughs wrote 18 novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. Burroughs also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, and made many appearances in films.
Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived throughout Mexico City, London, Paris, Berlin, the South American Amazon and Tangier in Morocco. Finding success with his confessional first novel, Junkie (1953), Burroughs is perhaps best known for his third novel Naked Lunch (1959).
In 1983, Burroughs was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1984 was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France.
Burroughs had one child in 1947, William Seward Burroughs III, with his second wife Joan Vollmer, who died in 1951 in Mexico City after Burroughs' accidental manslaughter, an event that deeply permeated all of his writings. Burroughs died at his home in Lawrence, Kansas after suffering a heart attack in 1997.
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