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Queer: A Novel
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Queer: A Novel Paperback - 1987

by Burroughs, William S

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Penguin Books, 1987-01-05. paperback. Very Good. 7x5x0. First Penguin printing, 1987. Minimal wear to covers. Text clean and unmarked. The binding is tight and square. Your satisfaction is guaranteed!
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  • Title Queer: A Novel
  • Author Burroughs, William S
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 1987-01-05
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 122222015
  • 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For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings.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.

From the publisher

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)—guru of the Beat Generation, controversial éminence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet, and blackest of black humor satirists—had a range of influence rivaled by few post-World War II writers. His many books include Naked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, and Interzone.

First line

Lee turned his attention to a Jewish boy named Carl Steinberg, whom he had known casually for about a year.

About the author

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) guru of the Beat Generation, controversialeminence grise of the international avant-garde, dark prophet, and blackest of black humor satirists had a range of influence rivaled by few post-World War II writers. His many books include Naked Lunch, Queer, Exterminator!, The Cat Inside, The Western Lands, and Interzone."

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