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| Author | : Stewart Meyer |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2015-03-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1497688612 |
Dope, duplicity, and violence fill this gasser of a novel from a protégé of William S. Burroughs Set in the scorched cityscape of the Reagan-era Lower East Side of Manhattan, The Lotus Crew is Stewart Meyer’s harrowing yet humorous tale of loyalty and betrayal in the face of heroin addiction. Two street junkies, the introverted Alvira and the gregarious Tommy, team up to spark a street-retailing crew pushing the best heroin in town. In the abandoned buildings and back alleys of an Alphabet City that is as dangerous as the Wild West, the stamp of the Triad crew on a glassine bag of dope means it’s a smoker. The duo is wildly successful until someone counterfeits the Triad seal and triggers a reaction from Tommy that leads to violence—and to a rude awakening for Alvira.
| Author | : William S. Burroughs |
| Publisher | : Penguin Books, Limited (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : American fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780141045405 |
'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment in life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.' Burrough's cult classic is a raw, semi-autobiographical account of drug addiction, which outraged America and influenced generations of writers to come. He relates with unflinching realism the highs and lows of dependency- euphoria, hallucinations, ghostly nocturnal wanderings and strange sexual encounters. Junkyis a dark, powerful and mesmerizing account of one man's challenge to turn self-destruction into art.
| Author | : William S. Burroughs |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0802194052 |
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. 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. For this definitive edition, renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has gone back to archival typescripts to re-created the author's original text word by word. From the tenements of New York to the queer bars of New Orleans, Junky takes the reader into a world at once long-forgotten and still with us today. Burroughs’s first novel is a cult classic and a critical part of his oeuvre.
| Author | : William S. Burroughs |
| Publisher | : Grove Press |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2013-10-14 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0802121950 |
"Sheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining."--Chicago Sun-Times Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisely about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes. He offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust. He ruminates on science and the often dubious paths into which it seems intent on leading us, whether into outer or inner space. He reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cut-up" method, and discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and work. As satirist and parodist, William Burroughs has no peer, as these varied works, written over three decades, amply reveal.
| Author | : Bright Summaries |
| Publisher | : BrightSummaries.com |
| Total Pages | : 21 |
| Release | : 2018-12-13 |
| Genre | : Study Aids |
| ISBN | : 2808012888 |
Unlock the more straightforward side of Junkie with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Junkie by William S. Burroughs, a semi-autobiographical account of a young man’s struggles with drug addiction. After his first experience with morphine, the novel’s protagonist quickly becomes addicted to the drug, and gets involved in increasingly desperate schemes to get his next fix. His dependence leads to clashes with the law and stints in both prisons and rehabilitation centres, as he cycles between sobriety and enslavement to ‘junk’. Junkie was the first novel published by William S. Burroughs, and was originally published under the pseudonym William Lee. It was branded ‘obscene’ when it was first published, but has come to be seen as one of the seminal novels of the Beat Generation. Find out everything you need to know about Junkie in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
| Author | : William S. Burroughs |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 179 |
| Release | : 2012-09-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141975660 |
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' 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's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.
| Author | : Graham Caveney |
| Publisher | : Little Brown & Company |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780316137256 |
A portrait of the iconoclastic literary pioneer describes his early life and education, his growing addiction to heroin, his role in the Beat movement, his landmark works, and his influence on the late twentieth century arts.
| Author | : William S. Burroughs |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 1990-02-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0140094512 |
In 1954 William Burroughs settled in Tangiers, finding a sanctuary of sorts in its shadowy streets, blind alleys, and lowlife decadence. It was this city that served as a catalyst for Burroughs as a writer, the backdrop for one of the most radical transformations of style in literary history. Burroughs's life during this period is limned in a startling collection of short stories, autobiographical sketches, letters, and diary entries, all of which showcase his trademark mordant humor, while delineating the addictions to drugs and sex that are the central metaphors of his work. But it is the extraordinary "WORD," a long, sexually wild and deliberately offensive tirade, that blends confession, routine, and fantasy and marks the true turning point of Burroughs as a writer-the breakthrough of his own characteristic voice that will find its full realization in Naked Lunch. James Grauerholz's incisive introduction sets the scene for this series of pieces, guiding the reader through Burroughs's literary evolution from the precise, laconic, and deadpan writer of Junky and Queer to the radical, uncompromising seer of Naked Lunch. Interzone is an indispensable addition to the canon of his works.
| Author | : Bright Summaries |
| Publisher | : BrightSummaries.com |
| Total Pages | : 22 |
| Release | : 2019-03-28 |
| Genre | : Study Aids |
| ISBN | : 2808015933 |
Unlock the more straightforward side of Naked Lunch with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, a seminal work of literature associated with the Beat Generation. It tells the story of a drug addict’s bizarre experiences in a dreamlike landscape, which is populated by grotesque creatures known as Mugwumps, and where taboo acts such as rape and murder are committed constantly with no consequences. Naked Lunch is one of the best-known works by William S. Burroughs, largely due to its reputation as one of the most ‘obscene’ pieces of literature ever published. Burroughs was even taken to court over it, but his eventual victory in that trial actually played a key role in the overturning of American obscenity laws. Find out everything you need to know about Naked Lunch in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
| Author | : William S. Burroughs |
| Publisher | : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2011-02-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0802197213 |
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
