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Queer

By Burroughs, William S

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Queer

By Burroughs, William S

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“A major work, Burroughs’s heart laid bare, the origin of his writing”—Allen Ginsberg The definitive text of William S. Burroughs’s early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, now adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs’s 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, the protagonist of Burroughs’s debut novel Junky, a man afflicted with acute heroin withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest. Now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition of Queer features a contextualizing introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2022-09-06
Publication Date:
2022-09-06
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0802160565
ISBN13:
9780802160560
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
204 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
205 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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