Author:William S. Burroughs

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Junky: The Definitive Text of 'Junk'

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Grove Press: October 2012

Seller ID: 128011

ISBN: 0802120423

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld of post-war America. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the novel, Bill Lee, see-saws between periods of addiction and rehab, using a panoply of substances including heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric (a weak tincture of opium) and goof balls (barbiturate), amongst othe...
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Junky: The Definitive Text of 'Junk' (50th Anniversary Edition)

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Penguin Books: April 2003

Edition: 50

Seller ID: 144772

ISBN: 0142003166

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lo...
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Naked Lunch

By: Burroughs, William S.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Grove Press: December 2013

Seller ID: 130763

ISBN: 0802122078

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Since its original publication in Paris in 1959, Naked Lunch has become one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on the relationship of art and obscenity, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture. For the Burroughs enthusiast and the neophyte, this volumethat contains final-draft typescripts, numerous unpublished contemporaneous writings by Burroughs, his own later introductions to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugsis a valuable and fresh experience of a novel that has lost none of its relevance or satiri...
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Naked Lunch

By: Burroughs, William S.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press: December 2013

Seller ID: 277496

ISBN: 0802122078

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The Western Lands

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: December 1988

Seller ID: 223824

ISBN: 0140094563

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Western Land is legendary Beat writer William S. Burrough's profound, revealing, and often astonishing meditation on morality, loneliness, life, and death -- a Book of the Dead for the nuclear age.

"Burrough's visionary power, his comic genius, and his unerring ability to crack the codes that make up the life of this century are undimished." -- J.G. Ballard, Washington Post Book World
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