- Drug Use, Heroin, Drug addicts, Recovering addicts
Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed as a series of inter-connected adventures set in locations as diverse as the U.S. Mexico and Morocco sees the protagonist, Burroughs’ alter-ego William Lee on the run from the police and always searching for his next fix. Burroughs once stated that the chapters can be read in any order.
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Character
Prestige, open-ended, bleak and formally daring.
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Joyce & Co/Meulenhoff Amsterdam, Bruguera, Turtleback
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- Russian, English, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780802119261
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“I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train ... Young, good looking, crew cut, Ivy League, advertising exec type fruit holds the door back for me.”
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