Junky by William S. Burroughs [U.K. TRADE PAPERBACK] 2002 • Penguin

Junky by William S. Burroughs with an introduction by Will Self

U.K. TRADE PAPERBACK [2002] PENGUIN CLASSICS

Scarce 2002 U.K. re-issue with heroin cover.

Trade paperback in very good condition with cover wear.   

Cover has some light edge wear; small dent on rear and mild creasing to spine. 

Reads nicely with a hint of tanning.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junky, his first novel. It is a candid eye-witness account of times and places that are now long gone, an unvarnished field report from the American post-war underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially-despised under classes (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained anthropologist when he unapologetically described a way of life - in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City - that by the 1940's was already demonized by the artificial anti-drug hysteria of an opportunistic bureaucracy and a cynical, prostrate media.  - Bookshop Apocalypse