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Queer: A Novel Paperback - 1987
by Burroughs, William S
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- Title Queer: A Novel
- Author Burroughs, William S
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Later printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date January 6, 1987
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140083898.G
- ISBN 9780140083897 / 0140083898
- Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.86 x 5.08 x 0.46 in (19.96 x 12.90 x 1.17 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86015147
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" — brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch —yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.
In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.
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Lee turned his attention to a Jewish boy named Carl Steinberg, whom he had known casually for about a year.