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The Adding Machine: Collected Essays

by William S. Burroughs
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Essays uncovering Burroughs' mind and influences.

If you've been intrigued by the beats of Burroughs' typewriter in his famed novels, "The Adding Machine" invites you further into his workshop. It's a compelling behind-the-scenes glance into what shapes an influential writer's thoughts, interests, and creative processes. You might find it not just enlightening, but also a nuanced map to navigating his more complex works.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Adding Machine: Collected Essays

by William S. Burroughs
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ISBN: 9780714540733
Authors: William S. Burroughs
Publisher: John Calder
Date of Publication: 1985-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction
Related Topics: Literature, Essays, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.09
(rated by 910 readers)

Description

Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust. He ruminates on science and the often dubious paths into which it seems intent on leading us, whether into outer or inner space.
 

Essays uncovering Burroughs' mind and influences.

If you've been intrigued by the beats of Burroughs' typewriter in his famed novels, "The Adding Machine" invites you further into his workshop. It's a compelling behind-the-scenes glance into what shapes an influential writer's thoughts, interests, and creative processes. You might find it not just enlightening, but also a nuanced map to navigating his more complex works.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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