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Description:In his raw and most autobiographical novel, Junky, also his debut, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and dealing heroin and other drugs in the 1940s. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, seesaws between periods on junk and off junk, using a panoply of substances including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric, and goof balls. From the tenements of New York to the queer bars of New Orleans, Junky is a field report from the American postwar drug underground, a cult classic that has influenced a generation of writers, and a critical part of Burroughs’s oeuvre. For this definitive edition, renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to re-create the author’s original text word by word.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk". To get started finding Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk", you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 197

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2012

ISBN: 0802120423

Description: In his raw and most autobiographical novel, Junky, also his debut, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and dealing heroin and other drugs in the 1940s. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, seesaws between periods on junk and off junk, using a panoply of substances including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric, and goof balls. From the tenements of New York to the queer bars of New Orleans, Junky is a field report from the American postwar drug underground, a cult classic that has influenced a generation of writers, and a critical part of Burroughs’s oeuvre. For this definitive edition, renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to re-create the author’s original text word by word.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk". To get started finding Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk", you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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