Queer - Softcover

Burroughs, William S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140083898 ISBN 13: 9780140083897

Publisher: Penguin, 1987

Synopsis

For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.

In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.

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About this title

About the Author:

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) guru of the Beat Generation, controversialeminence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet, and blackest of black humor satirists had a range of influence rivaled by few post-World War II writers. His many books include Naked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, and Interzone."

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140083898
• ISBN 13: 9780140083897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160