Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Penguin Clothbound Classics)

A solid and attractive ex military library copy with usual interior markings, limited to endpapers, stamp on bottom edge. No markings on the bright and lightly worn priceclipped jacket.

William Burroughs was born in St Louis, Missouri in 1914. Immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s -- notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg -- he already had an underground reputation before the appearance of his first important book, 'Naked Lunch'. Originally published by the daring and influential Olympia Press (the original publishers of Henry Miller) in France in 1959, it aroused great controversy on publication and was not available in the US until 1962 and in the UK until 1964. The book was adapted for film by David Cronenberg in 1991.