by William S. Burroughs · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141045405
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«Junky» is the semi-autobiographical novel by American writer William S. Burroughs, published by Penguin in paperback (192 pages, in English).
The novel narrates in autobiographical key Burroughs's immersion in heroin in the 1940s and 1950s, between New York, New Orleans and Mexico: addicts, dealers, outcasts and an addiction described as a way of life, with euphoria, delusions and strange sexual encounters.
This Penguin Books edition was published on July 2, 2009; the novel originally appeared in 1953.
Cult work of the beat generation; for readers of autobiographical narrative about addiction and classics of contemporary fiction.
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