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Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (Hardcover)

by William S Burroughs (Author)
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“From the opening page we immediately get an extraordinarily vivid picture of Burroughs himself, sitting alone in some dingy bar in the Peruvian coastal town of Talara, pencil in hand—his “rum” in the other—pressing his thoughts and observations onto the paper in his own, instantly recognizable style.” —from the introduction by Oliver Harris



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In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America. His first novel, Junkie, had just been published and he would soon be back in New York to meet Allen Ginsberg and together complete the manuscripts of what became The Yage Letters and Queer. Yet this notebook, the sole survivor from that period, reveals Burroughs not as a writer on the verge of success, but as a man staring down personal catastrophe and visions of looming cultural disaster.

Losses that will not let go of him haunt Burroughs throughout the notebook: “Bits of it keep floating back to me like memories of a daytime nightmare.” However, out of these dark reflections we see emerge vivid fragments of Burroughs’ fiction and, even more tellingly, unique, primary evidence for the remarkable ways in which his early manuscripts evolved. Assembled in facsimile and transcribed by Geoffrey D. Smith, John M. Bennett, and Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, the notebook forces us to change the way we see both Burroughs and his writing at a turning point in his literary biography.



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  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Ohio State University Press; 1 edition (December 17, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0814210805
  • ISBN-13: 978-0814210802
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #643,618 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars For those who like the cursive word ..., May 29, 2008
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Not Burroughs' best writing or most provocative -- but is there really any bad Burroughs' writing? The most interesting aspect is reading his handwriting in his own journal, a plus for all journal keepers out there who like to read the cursive word. A definite must for hardcore WSB fans.
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1.0 out of 5 stars what about non-academics?, April 30, 2008
Any chance this will be published in paperback? $59 is steep. So unfortunate the price keeps most of us degenerate Burroughs' readers at arm's length from owning a copy.
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