num_pages: 224
description: Caveney researches Burrough's complete writings as well as his forays into film, rock music and painting and succeeds in explaining the enigma of a gentleman who quoted Buddha and Rimbaud as his literary mentors while enjoying a fascination with drugs, guns, criminals and every kind of low-life.
language: English
title: The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
titlecomplete: The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs
genres: Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 64
publisher: Bloomsbury