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Title: Queer
Condition: New
EAN: 9780141189918
ISBN: 9780141189918
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 25/11/2010
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 12mm
Item Weight: 157g
Author: William S. Burroughs
Contributor: Oliver Harris (Introduction by)
Language: English
Subtitle: 25th Anniversary Edition
ISBN-10: 0141189916
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Book Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Release Year: 2010
Description: Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' 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's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.

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