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Junkie alternately titled junky is a 1953 semiautobiographical novel by william s. February 5, 1914 august 2, 1997 was an american novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. This detailed literature summary also contains topics for discussion and a free quiz on junky by william s.
Burroughs was born on february 5, 1914 in st louis. The story follows a man at odds with american mainstream culture into a quest for spiritual meaning via heroin. For this definitive edition, renowned burroughs scholar oliver harris has gone back to archival typescripts to recreated the authors original text word by word. Burroughs first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. In his debut novel, junky, burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym william lee. Burroughs, 9780141189826, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junky is a novel yet also serves as an autobiographical account of william s. Burroughs did, in fact, start using heroin in 1944 and within a year, he was an addict. Burroughs wrote junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone.
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