TY - BOOK AU - Burroughs,William S. AU - Harris,Oliver TI - Junky: the definitive text of Junk SN - 9780802120427 (pbk.) AV - PS3552 .U75 J86 2012 U1 - 813.54 B945j PY - 2012/// CY - New York, [Berkeley, Calif.] PB - Grove Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West KW - Drug addicts KW - Fiction KW - Heroin abuse KW - Experimental fiction KW - lcsh KW - Autobiographical fiction KW - gsafd N1 - Imprint date taken from page 4 of cover N2 - 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 ER -