Junky, Signed
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Signed by William Burroughs. Mass Market Paperback Very Good No Jacket Issued Book 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Excellent presentation in a custom made clear lucite box. Junky is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953. His first published work, it is semi-autobiographical and focuses on Burroughs' life as a drug user and dealer. It has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s. Burroughs began it largely at the request and insistence of friend and poet Allen Ginsberg who was impressed by Burroughs's letter-writing skill. Burroughs took up the task with very little enthusiasm. However, because he saw that becoming a publishable writer was possible (his friend Jack Kerouac had published his first novel The Town and the City in 1950), he began, in earnest, to compile his experiences as an addict, 'lush roller' and small-time Greenwich Village heroin pusher.
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