Junky : the definitive text of Junk /
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997.
Junky : the definitive text of Junk / William S. Burroughs ; edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris. - New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2012. - 197 p. ; 21 cm.
Imprint date taken from page 4 of cover.
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 others.
9780802120427 (pbk.) 0802120423 (pbk.)
Drug addicts--Fiction.
Heroin abuse--Fiction.
Experimental fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
PS3552 .U75 / J86 2012
813.54 B945j
Junky : the definitive text of Junk / William S. Burroughs ; edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris. - New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Grove Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2012. - 197 p. ; 21 cm.
Imprint date taken from page 4 of cover.
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 others.
9780802120427 (pbk.) 0802120423 (pbk.)
Drug addicts--Fiction.
Heroin abuse--Fiction.
Experimental fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
PS3552 .U75 / J86 2012
813.54 B945j