Blew The Shot: An Account Of William S. Burroughs Time In Mexico

RIGHT BETWEEN THE EYES It was the shot heard round the countercultural world; the literal Big Bang of the Beats. In 1951, during a party one night in Mexico City, writer William S. Burroughs drunkenly convinced his wife Joan Vollmer into standing against a wall with a shot glass on her head while he fired a gun at her. BLEW THE SHOT weaves up to this appalling incident, drifting back and forth in time, examining the reasons and keystones behind Burroughs' murder of Vollmer. The motivations and events, examined and tossed about like a Rorschach test, creates a story that's part biography, part horror tale, and part touchingly emotional psycho-drama. The author Luis Blasini leaves lusciously ambiguous whether the shooting itself was murder, drug-fueled madness, or one of those great historical incidents transcending its reality to become an allegory for art and destruction. BLEW THE SHOT slides artfully along the razor's edge suggesting the principal character might be either a genius or merely a depraved madman. There's the sense of a man who's tormented by the demons of his lusts and appetites, and is often helpless before them, as revealed within dramatically fact based innuendos that will leave the reader desiring for more.

Author: Luis Blasini

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Aug 24, 2016

Number of Pages: 314 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1522993339

ISBN-13: 9781522993339