Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life.
Burroughs\'s first novel is a cult classic and a critical part of his oeuvre..
From the tenements of New York to the queer bars of New Orleans, Junky takes the reader into a world at once long-forgotten and still with us today.
For this Definitive edition, renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to re-created the author\'s original Text word by word.
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.
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.
It is a way of life.
Junk is not a kick.
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life
