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The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel.

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.

ISBN-13

9780143117834

ISBN-10

0143117831

Weight

0.37 Pounds

Dimensions

5.07 x 0.50 x 7.74 In

List Price

$17.00

Edition

25th Edition

Format

-

Language

English

Pages

208 pages

Publisher

Penguin Books

Published On

2010-08-31



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