Queer / William S. Burroughs ; edited and with an Introduction by Oliver Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997, author.

Contributor:

Harris, Oliver (Oliver C. G.), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Gay men--United States--Fiction.

Gay men.

Noncitizens--United States--Fiction.

Noncitizens.

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction.

Fiction.

Gay fiction.

Queer fiction.

Physical Description:

l, 150 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2022.

Summary:

"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on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, the definitive text of William S. Burroughs's early, long-unpublished novel, now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre.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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"First published in 1985 in the United States of America by Viking Penguin Inc. This expanded edition was first published in 2010 by Penguin Books"--Title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Burroughs, William. Queer

ISBN:

9780802160560

0802160565

OCLC:

1321819100

Publisher Number:

90100646037