Junky : the definitive text of "Junk"
William S. Burroughs (Author), Oliver Harris (Writer of introduction, Editor), Allen Ginsberg (Contributor), Carl Solomon (Contributor)
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
Print Book, English, 2012
Grove Press, New York, 2012