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Junky

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Description for Junky Paperback. A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.

A shocking exposé of the desperate subculture surrounding heroin addiction, William S. Burroughs' Junky is edited with an introduction by Oliver Harris in Penguin Modern Classics.

Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, Junky is a field report (by a writer trained in anthropology at Harvard) from the American ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141189826
SKU
V9780141189826
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About William S. Burroughs
William S Burroughs (Author) William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon ... Read more

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