An edition of Naked Lunch (1959)

Naked lunch

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An edition of Naked Lunch (1959)

Naked lunch

1st evergreen ed.

by and

  • ★★★ ★ 3.8 (21 ratings)
  • 267 Want to read
  • 20 Currently reading
  • 38 Have read

The tale of a descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers and then into the nightmarish Interzone.

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Grove Weidenfeld
Language
English
Pages
255

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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
paperback in English
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Naked Lunch
Jul 19, 2009, London. Fourth Estate
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Naked lunch
2008, Harper Perennial
in English
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Pasto nudo
2001, Adelphi
in Italian
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Naked lunch
1993, Flamingo
in English
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Naked lunch
1992, Grove Weidenfeld
in English - 1st evergreen ed.
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Naked lunch
1966, Grove Press
in English - 1st Black Cat ed.
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Naked lunch.
1962, Grove Press
in English
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the naked lunch
1959, JOHN CALDER in association with Olympia Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: Paris : Olympia Press, 1959.

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.U75 N3 1991, PS3552.U75N3 1991

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 255 p. ;
Number of pages
255

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL1543946M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780802132956
ISBN 10
0802132952
LCCN
91022972
OCLC/WorldCat
27393986
LibraryThing
5852
Goodreads
563798

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL258134W

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Work Description

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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