Scarce Unrevised and Unpublished Proof
BURROUGHS, William Queer. Viking: [1965]
8vo. Original green paper wrappers with black title lettering to spine; pp. xxv, [1], 134; minimal toning to spine and lightly marked to front wrapper; otherwise fine.
Unrevised and unpublished proof. Ownership most likely that of a reviewer.
“Queer is a love story” so the blurb states. In typical Burroughs style, the protagonist, a recovering heroin addict, wanders around cities pining for a young man named Eugene Allerton. The story spent 30 years in manuscript form before being eventually taken up by Viking in 1985.
The novel is in part a sequel to his more famous earlier novel Junkie, which ends with the stated ambition of finding a drug called Yage, a psychoactive brew made by certain communities in the Amazon basin.
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