Queer
25th Anniversary Edition
$22.95
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2011
Summary
The definitive 25th-anniversary edition of Burroughs’s legendary second novel
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer 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, Naked Lunch.
Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee’s hopeles…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141189918 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141189916 |
| Author: | William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 25th |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 157g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 130mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Queer is a stunner. A neglected work that became legendary in its very absence.
Queer is a stunner. A neglected work that became legendary in its very absence. * Los Angeles Times *
William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs (Author)
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis. In his work and life, Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics, and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, and soon after began writing. By the time of his death, he was widely recognized as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century.
His numerous books include:
- Naked Lunch
- Junky
- Queer
- Nova Express
- Interzone
- The Wild Boys
- The Ticket That Exploded
- The Soft Machine
After living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris, and London, Burroughs finally returned to America in 1974. He died in 1997.
Oliver Harris (Introducer)
Oliver Harris is a professor of American literature at Keele University and the editor of:
- The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959 (1993)
- Junky: The Definitive Text of “Junk” (2003)
- The Yage Letters Redux (2006)
- Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs (2008)
He has published articles on film noir, the epistolary, and Beat Generation writing, as well as the book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination (2003). He is currently co-editing Naked Lunch@50: Anniversary Essays (2009) and working on a new twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Queer (forthcoming in 2010).
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