In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his stories utilizing and peddling heroin and different medicines within the Fifties right into a paintings that reads like a box document from the underworld of post-war the USA. The Burroughs-like protagonist of the unconventional, invoice Lee, see-saws among sessions of dependancy and rehab, utilizing a panoply of gear together with heroin, cocaine, marijuana, paregoric (a vulnerable tincture of opium) and goof balls (barbiturate), among others. For this definitive version, well known Burroughs pupil Oliver Harris has long past again to archival typescripts to re-created the author's unique textual content note via notice. From the tenements of recent York to the queer bars of recent Orleans, Junky takes the reader right into a international right now long-forgotten and nonetheless with us this day. Burroughs’s first novel is a cult vintage and a serious a part of his oeuvre.
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