An edition of Junky (1953)

Junkie.

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Junkie.
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An edition of Junky (1953)

Junkie.

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  • 161 Want to read
  • 9 Currently reading
  • 36 Have read

A semi-autobiographical account, narrated in a matter-of-fact manner, of the author’s life as a drug addict. The story ranges from the backstreets of New York to a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kentucky, the bars of New Orleans and on to Mexico, recounting the difficulties of obtaining drugs, financial problems and homosexual encounters. Burroughs significantly stretched the boundaries of publishable material with his debut novel.

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New English Library
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Drug addicts, Heroin abuse, Fiction, Drug use, Homosexuals in Fiction, Biography, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Drug abuse, Fiction in English, Heroin, Drogenabhängigkeit, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Drug addicts--fiction, Heroin abuse--fiction, Ps3552.u75 j86 2003, 813/.54, Substance-Related Disorders, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, general, United states, fiction, Rauschgift, I. d. Literatur

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New York, New Orleans (La.), Kentucky, Mexico

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1950's

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Junky: the definitive text of Junk
2012, Grove Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West
in English
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Junky
2003, Penguin Books
in English - 50th anniversary ed.
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Junky
1977, Penguin Books
in English - 1st complete and unexpurgated ed.
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Junky
1977, Penguin Books
in English - 1st complete and unexpurgated ed.
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Junkie.
1972, New English Library
in English - New ed.
Cover of: Junkie
Junkie: Bekenntnisse e. unbekehrten Rauschgiftsüchtigen
1972, Ullstein
in German - Ungekürzte Ausg.
Cover of: Junkie
Junkie
1966-01-01, Olympia Press/New English Library
in English
Cover of: Junkie
Junkie
1953, Ace Books
in English

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Originally published under the pen name of William Lee, New York: Ace Books, 1953.

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OL15047418M
ISBN 10
0450010627
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26134
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6536042

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OL258131W

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