Gentleman Junkie: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs by Graham Caveney

Gentleman Junkie:  The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs by Graham Caveney is a 224-page hardcover published by Little, Brown and Company (Boston, New York, Toronto, London), stated first edition of 1998.  The condition of both the cover and book are good. Book Summary William S. Burroughs, founding father of America's counterculture, was born in 1914 into a wealthy St. Louis family.  He originally planned to be a doctor but soon found another calling:  literary outlaw and professional iconoclast.  During his youth, he led a life almost as strange as his writing, drifting from job to job--as bartender, private detective, and insect exterminator--before writing his first book, Junkie, a harrowing account of his fifteen-year heroin addiction.  But it was Naked Lunch, a surreal Dante's Inferno of narcotics, urban nightmares, and explicit sex, that became his masterpiece and made him an icon of the avant-garde, and sealed his role as hero to generations of artists, poets, punks, and