Junkie

By William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris

Subjects: Heroin, Biography, Heroin abuse, 813/.54, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Drogenabhängigkeit, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Ps3552.u75 j86 2003, Drug abuse, Drug addicts--fiction, Drug addicts, Drug use, Fiction in English, Homosexuals in Fiction, Heroin abuse--fiction

Description: A semi-autobiographical account, narrated in a matter-of-fact manner, of the author’s life as a drug addict. The story ranges from the backstreets of New York to a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kentucky, the bars of New Orleans and on to Mexico, recounting the difficulties of obtaining drugs, financial problems and homosexual encounters. Burroughs significantly stretched the boundaries of publishable material with his debut novel.