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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780141189826
ISBN: 0141189827
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: November 06, 2008
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics
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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 post-war drug underground. A cult classic, it has influenced generations of writers with its raw, sparse and unapologetic tone. This definitive edition painstakingly recreates the author's original text word for word.
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This is a classic, William Burroughs may be one of the first writers really to acount their real experience with drugs. A little bit of BEAT in his writings, recomended!
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Further evidence that the self-indulgent spoiled children of the beat generation couldn't produce a book worth reading. At least the unreadable Naked Lunch could be hated, but Junky is too meagre to inspire any emotion at all, even negative ones.
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The writing is clean, spare and remarkably descriptive. Burroughs treats this subject matter in a very matter of fact manner. He tells of acquiring and maintaining his habit without a trace of the illicit titilation found in most of the addiction/recovery genre.
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Mild by today's standards, I can imagine the sensation this book caused when it came out. Burroughs describes life as lived by the junky, getting hooked, kicking, getting hooked again, busted, kicking, hooked again, kicking, busted again, hooked . . . briefly covers his `accidental' murder of his wife, Joan, in Mexico City when, while all stoned on H, he shot her in the head while she stood still w/ a bottle on her head, a gag they used to play to impress company, & some of the anachronistic ... Read More
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Like many, my introduction to William S. Burroughs was Naked Lunch; a book that may very well be the most authentic description of a drug addict's personal, nightmarish hell. I picked up Junky afterwards, not knowing what to expect, and came away disappointed at first. "That's it?" was the thought ringing through my head, as Junky comes off as a straight forward tale of a drug addict on the brink, compared to the picture that Burroughs so vividly painted with Naked Lunch. Deciding to give Junky ... Read More
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EAN: 9780141189826
ISBN: 0141189827
Label: Penguin Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: November 06, 2008
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Studio: Penguin Classics