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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780140083897
Edition: later printing
ISBN: 0140083898
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: January 06, 1987
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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This book has been sitting on my library shelves for a couple of years untouched. Since it was William Burroughs, and looked like a fairly quick read, I decided to pick it up. Burroughs is one of the seminal American authors of the underground gay experience, right? I thought it would be like reading Alan Hollinghurst on cocaine - something I was looking forward to.
But I was highly disappointed. The novel's plot revolves around gay two heroin addicts, William Lee and Eugene Allerton. ... Read More
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A satisfying post-Junkie novel. A quick read and a deeper look into William S. Burroughs weaknesses, sexuality, and seldom talked about murdering of his wife Joan, (interesting introduction). As an ex-junkie, reading a novel of junk sickness and the devastating love and lust that seemingly goes with it, is a great find. Not to mention I've fallen in love Burroughs' candid (and sometimes abominable) writing style that's loaded with wit and intelligence.
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I enjoyed reading this book. If you like Burroughs work this is a definite read.
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This books is a very sensible story of William Burroughs with his boyfriend Allerton in the 50's in the spectral corrupted Mexico City, where queers where sexually repressed and where the repression was another tool of control.
Burroughs give a comprehensible writing, more in the genre of Junky, where this is a straightforward telling with reality transposition, and with this tender and sad story of the end of the addiction of Burroughs and his sexual orientation and love story with this young boy ... Read More
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A book of unreciprocated feelings, and longings amplified by withdrawel and junk sickness. This is a much more intimate and personal look into the life of William Burroughs than his other stuff. It takes place after he accidentally killed his wife, and he is sobering up and facing all of the demons and guilt previously dulled by the drugs.
This book was banned for a long time, the homosexual relationships and longings aren't grotesque exaggerations with shock value in mind like some of his other ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780140083897
Edition: later printing
ISBN: 0140083898
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: January 06, 1987
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)