Book softcover 50th anniversary definitive edition, bright yellow inside covers, signed and dedication by the author of the introduction. Condition Near Fine sharp corners and edges, spine intact, edges tanned, light tan to page margins.

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Title: Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0142003166
ISBN 13: 9780142003169
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Fine

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Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S. Burroughs wrote Junk, his first book, a candid, eyewitness account of times and places that are now long gone. This book brings them vividly to life again; it is an unvarnished field report from the American postwar underground. For this definitive 50th-anniversary edition, eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris has painstakingly re-created the author's original text, word by word, from archival typescripts. Here for the first time are Burroughs's own unpublished Introduction and an entire omitted chapter, along with many "lost" passages and auxiliary texts by Allen Ginsberg and others. Harris's comprehensive Introduction reveals the composition history of Junk's text and places its contents against a lively historical background.

About the Author

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)—guru of the Beat Generation, controversial �minence 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.

Oliver Harris edited The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1945-1959. He is currently a lecturer in American Literature at the University of Keele.

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