Junky
Subtitle: the definitive text of Junk
By: William S. Burroughs ; edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris
Contributors: Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.)
Publisher: Grove Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9780802120427
Subjects: Drug addicts; Heroin abuse; Fiction
Work titles: Junkie
Description: 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.
Notes: Imprint date taken from page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments -- Editor's introduction -- Prologue -- Junky -- Glossary -- Appendices -- 1.; title: Chapter 28 of the original "Junk" manuscript -- -- 2.; title: "Introduction" to the original "Junk" manuscript -- -- 3.; title: Letter from William Burroughs to A.A. Wyn [1959] -- -- 4.; title: "Junkie : an appreciation" (1952) / by -- Allen Ginsberg -- 5.; title: Carl Solomon's publisher's note in Junkie (1953) -- -- 6.; title: Foreword to Junkie (1964) / by -- Carl Solomon -- 7.; title: Introduction to Junky (1977) / by-- Allen Ginsberg-- Notes.