Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment
of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. 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. 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. 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. 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. Burroughs's first
novel is a cult classic and a critical part of his oeuvre.
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