{"product_id":"my-education-a-book-of-dreams-9780140094541","title":"My Education: A Book of Dreams","description":"\u003ci\u003eMy Education\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mr. Burroughs has lost none of his irreverence or wit, but in recent years he has acquired an elegant, elegiac tone.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam S. Burroughs (1914-1997)\u003c\/b\u003e was an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, he is considered to be \"one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th century\". His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays including \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, My Education, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Interzone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491527758098,"sku":"9780140094541","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e663cd1-58d8-4b36-90b4-763300ef5e25.jpg?v=1730542614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-education-a-book-of-dreams-9780140094541","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}