My Education: A Book of Dreams

My Education is William S. Burroughs's final collection, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, written over several decades and as personal and close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the mundane and ordinary -- conversations with his friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex -- to the erotic, bizarre, and visionary. Always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs's own fiction, in this book, dreams become a direct and powerful force in themselves.

Mr. Burroughs has lost none of his irreverence or wit, but in recent years he has acquired an elegant, elegiac tone. - The New York Times

Author: William S. Burroughs
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/01/1996
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 7.67h x 5.00w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9780140094541
ISBN10: 0140094547
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Psychological
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)--guru of the Beat Generation, controversial éminence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet, and blackest of black humor satirists--had a range of influence rivaled by few post-World War II writers. His many books include Naked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, and Interzone.