The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas (2006)
College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press (book, 1st, inscribed, biography), 2006.
9.5" x 6.25" x 0.75", 200 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued (ISBN 978-1-58544-517-2).
Rob Johnson's The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South Texas, published by Texas A&M University Press in 2006. A biography of Burroughs and other Beats in the late '40s in Texas, prior to Burroughs' relocation to Mexico.
This was released in hardcover (without dust-jacket) and softcover [the hardcover is pictured here].
This copy is inscribed by author Rob Johnson to this copy's prior owner.
An inscribed softcover copy is also in the archive. This copy was acquired from Peter Lennon, the person it was inscribed to.
9.75" x 6.125" x 0.625", ISBN 978-1-58544-547-9.
9.75" x 6.125" x 0.625", ISBN 978-1-58544-547-9.
Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Prologue
- "The Beatest State in the Union": William S. Burroughs in Texas
- The South Texas Beats
- Tiger in the Valley
- The Wetback Deal
- Willy El Puto
- The Texas Oilman Routine
- The Wrath of God and the Liberal Imagination
- The Wild West
- On the Road in South Texas
- Asustado: The Death of Joan Burroughs
- Atrophied Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
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