ISBN: 0143117831 9780143117834

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 150

<b>The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel. </b> <br><br> Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, <i>Queer</i> 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, <i>Naked Lunch</i>. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, <i>Queer</i> 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. <br><br> A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, <i>Queer</i> is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.