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Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition) Paperback - 2003
by Burroughs, William S. (Author)/ Ginsberg, Allen (Foreword by)
- New
- Paperback
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.
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- Title Junky: The Definitive Text of Junk (50th Anniversary Edition)
- Author Burroughs, William S. (Author)/ Ginsberg, Allen (Foreword by)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 50 Anv
- Condition New
- Pages 166
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1-0142003166
- ISBN 9780142003169 / 0142003166
- Weight 0.37 lbs (0.17 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.5 in (19.56 x 13.21 x 1.27 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002193008
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.