{"id":13153,"date":"2020-07-23T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=13153"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:32:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:32:55","slug":"featured-willaim-s-burroughs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-willaim-s-burroughs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured: William S. Burroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"

William S. Burroughs is considered to be one of the most politically subversive, culturally influential, and innovative writers of the twentieth century. <\/span>Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who affected popular culture as well as literature. Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences as a heroin addict, as he lived and worked is various parts of the world, such as Mexico City, London, Paris, Berlin, and most famously Tangier.<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong> Hard bound in price clipped dust jacket. Stated First printing. Some wear to dust jacket and edges and boards. Spine edges of dust jacket show small chips. sunning to edges of black cloth boards. Foxing to end pages, otherwise with interior clean and binding tight. Compared to his Nova Tetralogy, Burroughs has adopted a more conventional style here, borrowing liberally from genre fiction. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, The Wild Boys tells the story of teenage gangs of marauders that emerge from North Africa in 1969. One of Burroughs’ most thought provoking works and now\u00a0 rather scarce.<\/p>\n

Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 29876
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SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n

The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead<\/strong>
\nBurroughs, William S.<\/em><\/p>\n

Publisher: Grove Press<\/strong>
\nPublication Date: 1971<\/strong>
\nBinding: Hardcover<\/strong>
\nBook Condition: Very Good<\/strong>
\nDust Jacket Condition: Very Good<\/strong>
\nEdition: First Edition<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

William S. Burroughs is considered to be one of the most politically subversive, culturally influential, and innovative writers of the twentieth century. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who affected popular culture as well as literature. Much of his work is semi-autobiographical, primarily drawn from his experiences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13153"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14982,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13153\/revisions\/14982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}