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Libros de Personas con alcoholismo (1 libros)

Cursed from Birth

Libro Cursed from Birth

Born in 1947 to the writer William S. Burroughs and his common-law wife Joan Vollmer, William S. Burroughs, Jr. (known as Billy Jr.) would later describe himself to his father as "your cursed-from-birth son". Cursed from Birth is testimony to the difficulty of living up to a famous father, and a lucid; shattering depiction of a life going down the tubes. Raised by his paternal grandparents in Palm Beach after his mother was killed by his father in a shooting accident, Billy saw his father become suddenly famous for Naked Lunch just as he became a teenager. Billy Jr.'s short life was defined...