My Education A Book Of Dreams (penguin

In My Education William Burroughs possessor of one of the sharpest strangest minds in all of fiction the writer of visceral nightmarish prose gives an autobiography of his singular subconscious. In dreams he travels to the Land of the Dead mourns and resurrects lost friends is sentenced to be hanged and walks on water he dreams of drugs and sex and travelling while places and creatures move both between his books and his sleep. Exploring and embodying Burroughs provocative ideas on writing painting consciousness and creativity My Education is intense vivid wry and laconic and a revealing journey into the mind of a great writer. A whirlwind valedictory of Burroughs own unconscious. An intensely personal book. The New York Times Book Review