BURROUGHS, William Queer. London: Picador.1986.
8vo. Black cloth boards with silver title lettering to spine; Illustrated dust jacket by Shinro Ohtake; pp. [4], 122, [6]; fine.
First UK Edition
“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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