A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, now reissued on the
seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, the definitive
text of William S. Burroughs's early, long-unpublished novel, now a
cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre Originally
written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma.
Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a
coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs's only realist
love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved
the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during
the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee, the protagonist of
Burroughs's debut novel Junky, a man afflicted with acute heroin
withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee
breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from
bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark
Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor
and the ugly American at his ugliest. Now reissued on the
seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition of
Queer features a contextualizing introduction by the eminent
Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris.
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