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An edition of Naked Lunch (1959)

Naked lunch

25th anniversary ed.

by

  • ★★★ ★ 3.7 (19 ratings) ·
  • 198 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 28 Have read

Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed as a series of inter-connected adventures set in locations as diverse as the U.S. Mexico and Morocco sees the protagonist, Burroughs’ alter-ego William Lee on the run from the police and always searching for his next fix. Burroughs once stated that the chapters can be read in any order.

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Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
235

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Subjects

Drug Use, Heroin, Drug addicts, Recovering addicts, Fiction, Autobiography, Beat Generation, War on Drugs, English language, Alienation (Social psychology), Drug withdrawal symptoms, FICTION / LGBT / Gay, FICTION / Literary, SELF-HELP / Substance Abuse & Addictions / Drugs, Pests, control, Playwriting, Drug abuse, Drama, technique, American literature, Fiction, humorous, general, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, psychological

People

William Lee

Places

United States, New Mexico, Mexico, Morocco, Tangier

Times

1950s

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Naked lunch
2014, Grove Press
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Naked Lunch
Jul 19, 2009, London. Fourth Estate
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Naked lunch: the restored text
2001, Grove Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West
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Naked lunch
1993, Flamingo
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Naked lunch
1992, Grove Weidenfeld
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Naked lunch
1984, Grove Press
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1966, Grove Press
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1962, Grove Press
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Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.U75 N3 1984, PS3552.U75N3 1984

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 235 p. ;
Number of pages
235

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3188111M
ISBN 10
0394538846, 0394538838
LCCN
83049461
OCLC/WorldCat
10483926
Library Thing
5852
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