Queer - Hardcover

Burroughs, William S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670808334 ISBN 13: 9780670808335

Publisher: The Viking Press, 1985

Synopsis

Recounts William Lee's seduction of Eugene Allerton in the Mexico City of the 1940s and the romantic agonies he suffered

About this title

About the Author:

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

From Publishers Weekly:

In an introduction, Burroughs observes that he wrote this heretofore unpublished picaresque novel in 1951, well before Naked Lunch established his reputation. He reveals that the book had its genesis in a terrible event: his accidental shooting to death of his wife, Joan, a tragedy that released the black wellsprings of his talent. The narrative recounts the hallucinatory life of William Lee, an American in Mexico City in the 1940s and his journey to Ecuador with his reluctant lover, Eugene Allerton, in search of the drug Yage. Lee is Burroughs after the killing, weighed down by guilt, drugs, lust and despair; seeking lethe. Admirerers will find an early exposition of Burroughs's later themes here, as well as a strain of gallows humor. The work is almost cinematic as it unfolds; the author is not yet experimenting with the meaninglessness of language, and, indeed it is thin in both thought and expression. This is the first of a series of Burroughs's works to be issued by Viking. Foreign rights: Andrew Wylie Agency. November
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About this edition

• Publisher: The Viking Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0670808334
• ISBN 13: 9780670808335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134