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Name: Junkie
Rating: 3.785714285714 (14 reviews)
Author: William S. Burroughs

Burroughs delivers a stark, matter‑of‑fact narrative of his own experiences with heroin addiction. The memoir follows him from the backstreets of New York and the bars of New Orleans to a rehabilitation hospital in Kentucky and a journey eventually reaching Mexico. Along the way he describes the everyday challenges of acquiring drugs, dealing with financial hardship, and engaging in homosexual encounters. Burroughs pushes the limits of conventional publishing with this debut novel, offering an unvarnished look at the life of a drug user.

First publish date: 1953

Genre: General Fiction/Autofiction

Authors: William S. Burroughs

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