Audio - Autobiography 2000
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New Audio - Autobiography Titles 2000


But at Amazon.co.uk Jack Brehm That Others May Live Published March 2000 by Random House Audio at £12.99 ISBN: 1-85686-673-4
Read by Barry Nolan
Senior Master Sergeant Jack Brehm is a pararescue jumper, or a 'Pj'. He is one of the select few members of the US Air Force who have made it through the intensive, gruelling physical and mental endurance tests known as the Pipeline. Little-known, multi-skilled and astonishingly brave, the Pjs' primary mission is the rescue of pilots shot down behind enemy lines. They are the unsung heroes who swim through monster-sized waves or who dangle precariously over raging seas. It was Jack Brehm who coordinated the rescue efforts that were chronicled in the bestselling book The Perfect Storm.
That Others May Live not only tells the story of Jack's life but also shares the stories of fellow Pjs, living and dead, who made careers of saving apparently doomed lives, at huge risk to themselves. Thrilling, shocking and utterly compelling, this is real-life heroic action-adventure at its fascinating best.
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 5 hrs Abridged by Virginia Noonan Produced by Louis Milgrom
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Junky

But at Amazon.co.uk William,S. Burroughs Junky Published May 2000 by Penguin Audio at £9.99 ISBN: 0-14-180182-4
Read by William S. Burroughs
(CD version)
'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.'
Thus, one of the creative visionaries of the Beat movement recites the junk equation, the calculus by which heroin redefines the addict's world. Burroughs's quasi-autobiographical narrative makes for a raw, fragmented and disturbing account of hallucinations, ghostly nocturnal wanderings, strange sexual encounters and quests to ease the hunger of the needle. Read in the incantational tones of Burroughs himself, this legendary account of one man's challenge to turn self-destruction into art is as shocking and powerful as it has ever been.
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs
About The Author
William S. Burroughs has been claimed as the father of the 'Beats', and, along with Kerouac and Ginsberg, as one of the 'big three' of that movement. He was the author of numerous works, including The Naked Lunch, Queer, Interzone, The Western Lands and The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959. He died in 1997.
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