An edition of Queer: A Novel (1985)

Queer

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An edition of Queer: A Novel (1985)

Queer

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"For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton." --Publisher.

Publish Date
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
134

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1998, Adelphi
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Queer
1985, Viking
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.U75 Q8 1985, PS3552.U75Q8 1985

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 134 p. :
Number of pages
134

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3029963M
ISBN 10
0670808334
LCCN
85010524
OCLC/WorldCat
12050392
LibraryThing
25791
Goodreads
863982

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL258141W
Wikidata
Q2392914

Work Description

Set in Mexico City during the early fifities, the story follows William Lee from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene as he pursues a young man named Allerton.

Excerpts

Lee turned his attention to a Jewish boy named Carl Steinberg, whom he had known casually for about a year.
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