- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Overlook Press; Reissue edition (Sep 21 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0879513144
- ISBN-13: 978-0879513146
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Work of art on it's own merit....,
By casey (tampa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Speed (Hardcover)
READ THIS FOR YER OWN GOOD...
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Work of art on it's own merit....,
By casey (tampa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Speed (Hardcover)
READ THIS FOR YER OWN GOOD...
5.0 out of 5 stars
fine book, damn' fine book,
By johnmc@world.std.com (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Speed (Hardcover)
_Speed_ was William S. Burrough's Jr.'s (not to be confused with his father, the "real" WSB) first novel. It's hard not to compare it to _The Basketball Diaries_ on the basis of some trivial and obvious similarities (_Speed_ is about the author's adolescent experiences as a methedrine addict in NYC) but he's going somewhere very different from where Carroll was going. His vision is colder and more distant than Carroll's, less sentimental. Yes, it IS possible to be less sentimental than Jim Carroll. WSB doesn't (didn't, i should say) write at all like his father; his prose is clean and spare, his characters are human, etc. Forget WSB sr. and Jim Carroll; WSB Jr. was enough of a writer to be considered on his own merits, which are significant. A very worthwhile book, as is its sucessor, _Kentucky Ham_. A third novel, _Pakriti Junction_, apparently was too fragmentary to print at the time of the author's death.
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