Junky

Junky

William S. Burroughs

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1953

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William Burroughs speaks with years of experience with junk and adds his own peculiar turns of phrase to the common story of a junkie who must eventually go straight or die. Burroughs speaks graphically about the junkie's hunger for the hypo as well as about his ambiguous sexuality and strange hallucinations.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (1914-1997) was an American writer and visual artist. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six…

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