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Gritty journey through the harrowing world of addiction.
If you're interested in raw, unfiltered portrayals of the addict's experience, "Junky" by William S. Burroughs could be a riveting read for you. This book offers a candid glimpse into the cycle of drug dependency, crime, and the subsequent toll on the human spirit. It's as much a piece of literary merit as it is a stark, cautionary tale that could resonate deeply with those curious about the darker facets of human behavior.
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Junky
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ISBN: 9780142003169
Publisher: Penguin
Date of Publication: 2003-04-01
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.85
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Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially-despised under classes (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained anthropologist when he unapologetically described a way of life - in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City - that by the 1940's was already demonized by the artificial anti-drug hysteria of an opportunistic bureaucracy and a cynical, prostrate media. For this fiftieth-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly recreated the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts and places the book's contents against a lively historical background in a comprehensive introduction. Here as well, for the first time, are Burroughs' own unpublished introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages, as well as auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others.
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Gritty journey through the harrowing world of addiction.
If you're interested in raw, unfiltered portrayals of the addict's experience, "Junky" by William S. Burroughs could be a riveting read for you. This book offers a candid glimpse into the cycle of drug dependency, crime, and the subsequent toll on the human spirit. It's as much a piece of literary merit as it is a stark, cautionary tale that could resonate deeply with those curious about the darker facets of human behavior.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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