Buy this book on-line BURROUGHS.Jnr, WILLIAM: : SPEEDLONDON.SPHERE BOOK LTD.,1971. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo p/back,1st edn thus.VG.No owner inscrptn and no price removal from card cover.Glossy, black background with colour illustrated portrait bust and hypodermic syringe with white-outlined red lower case lettering to front card cover,similarly coloured lettered title but author's name in white to concave spine/ backstrip,rear cover with orange capital lettered critic's review (from Rolling Stone - an American monthly magazine that focuses on music,politics,and popular culture) and white lettered synopsis; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping and creases - no nicks,tears or splits present.A pair of lower corner tip creases to front cover,one crease affecting corner tips of the pages beneath with same uniform crease; rear cover with a pair of oblique-angled vertical creases,one the entire height of cover,the other approx. 2/3rds of cover,and both covers with some inevitable but minimal,superficial scoring or indents - not excessively so though.Top+fore-edges aged/toned; contents tight and solid,but with ubiquitous page-edge toning - due to quality of paper used by this publisher notably in that era - no dog-ear reading corner tips creases.Described hard but fairly and honestly - nowhere as detracting as it reads - given the book's age and nature, i.e a p/back.UK,12mo p/back,1st edn thus,9-191pp [paginated] includes 10 chapters; plus [unpaginated] 2p introduction by Allen Ginsberg,critic's quote and synopsis with blan reverse,half-title and title pages and individual chapter separator pages.
SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burrough's Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle.With painful candour he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world - hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police,crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads,and guiding his paranoid needle-brother Chad through the dangerous city streets.
Totally stripped of remorse,self pity or sentiment,'SPEED' is a milestone in the younger generation's alienation from middle class society and its values.
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) - guru of the Beat Generation,controversial éminence grise of the international avant-garde,dark prophet,and blackest of black humour 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, Junkie and Interzone.
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