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 Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lo...
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My Education: A Book of Dreams

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: June 1996

Seller ID: 61225

ISBN: 0140094547

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Grove Press: December 2013

Seller ID: 130763

ISBN: 0802122078

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press: December 2013

Seller ID: 227696

ISBN: 0802122078

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Grove Press: December 2013

Seller ID: 253573

ISBN: 0802122078

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

Queer: 25th-Anniversary Edition

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Books: August 2010

Edition: 25

Seller ID: 260156

ISBN: 0143117831

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, "Queer" is an enigma-both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, "Naked Lunch." Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, "Queer" follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a man...
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The Burroughs File

By: William S. Burroughs

Price: $7.98

Publisher: City Lights Publishers: January 2001

Seller ID: 223986

ISBN: 087286152X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Trenchant writings by that sardonic ""hombre invisible,"" William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scatter-shot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, this collection delineates Burroughs' comprehensive world-view and his ""insurrectionary sense of America's underside," as Tom Carson epitomized it in The Village Voice.Also included are essays on Burroughs by ...
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