"A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, now reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, the definitive text of William S. Burroughs's early, long-unpublished novel, now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs's only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way ...
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"A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, now reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, the definitive text of William S. Burroughs's early, long-unpublished novel, now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughs's only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee, the protagonist of Burroughs's debut novel Junky, a man afflicted with acute heroin withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest. Now reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition of Queer features a contextualizing introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris"--
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Add this copy of Queer to cart. $206.95, like new condition, Sold by Bookworks rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chicago, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by The Viking Press.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book First Edition, First Printing, 1985, of the original hardback edition. Fine contents, binding and unclipped dust jacket; appears unread.
Add this copy of Queer to cart. $257.00, like new condition, Sold by modlitbooks rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by Viking Books.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 134 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in full blue cloth with illustrated unclipped dust jacket with no chips nor tears. A sharp copy, increasingly uncommon in the first edition.
Add this copy of Queer to cart. $440.97, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1985 by The Viking Press.
Queer allows the reader to experience life through the eyes of a homosexual drug addict. I found this book so captivating I was able to finish it in one night. In this book Burroughs exposes the secret world of homosexuals in a time when their lifestyle was thought by many to be criminal. This book also exposes the raw human emotions of one sided love affair between William Lee and his young traveling companion. Queer is a classic novel written in true Burroughs' style and welcomes the reader into the dark side of life.
