Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk" (50th Anniversary Edition)

(50th Anniversary Definitive Edition). William Burroughs's first novel is a candid eyewitness account - an unvarnished field report - from the American post-WWII underground. Unafraid to portray himself in 1953 as a confirmed member of two socially-despised underclasses (a narcotics addict and a homosexual), Burroughs was writing as a trained anthropologist when he unapologetically described a way of life - in New York, New Orleans, & Mexico City - that by the 1940s was already demonized by the artificial anti-drug hysteria of an opportunistic bureaucracy & a cynical, prostrate media. The original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. 166p.