Barry Miles, Author . Grove $25 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1783-0
Pop culture biographer Miles (Paul McCartney
; Ginsberg
; etc.) paints an engrossing portrait of the troubled musical genius who died of prostate cancer in 1993 at age 52. Zappa endured a peripatetic youth and an early brush with the law that fueled
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Barry Miles, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6043-0
Making bricks without straw is a phrase that suggests a product empty of data, but Miles, biographer of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs and once proprietor of a ""Beat"" bookshop in London, has made the process work in the case of Kerouac....
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Barry Miles, Author Sterling $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4027-1442-9
Biographer of Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and the Beat Movement itself, Miles broadens his scope to the years 1965 through 1971, a time that""really was about sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll."" This massive catalog tries to cram...
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Barry Miles, Author Simon & Schuster $24.45 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-50713-8
In overgenerous detail, this long, tedious biography records the rise to fame and the search for love by the now 63-year-old poet from Paterson, N.J. Son of a teacher-poet and his demented wife, Ginsberg was accustomed from childhood to crazed and...
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Barry Miles, Author Hyperion Books $22.95 (263p) ISBN 978-1-56282-848-6
In this affable and affectionate biography, Miles ( Allen Ginsberg ), a friend of Burroughs since 1964, covers the controversial writer's addictions, idiosyncrasies and personal relationships, as well as his writings. Drawing on Burroughs's...
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Barry Miles, Author Grove Press $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1668-0
Miles (Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats, etc.), who has been intimately involved in the documentation of the Beat scene, focuses here on an international aspect of Beat work: Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Gregory Corso's escape from ""the...
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Barry Miles. Twelve, $32 (736p) ISBN 978-1-4555-1195-2
The pioneering American countercultural writer and artist William Burroughs emerges as his own greatest character in this raucous biography. Biographer and Burroughs editor Miles (Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats) pens a dense, detailed, yet...
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