Junky Unknown binding - 1977
by William S. Burroughs; Introduction by Allen Ginsberg
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- Title Junky
- Author William S. Burroughs; Introduction by Allen Ginsberg
- Binding Unknown Binding
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used; Good
- Pages 158
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Publication date 1977-03-31
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1133519
- ISBN 9780140043518 / 0140043519
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.06 x 0.51 in (19.71 x 12.85 x 1.30 cm)
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 76048144
- Dewey Decimal Code B
- Quantity available 2
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Reviewers describe William S. Burroughs’s Junky as a stark, unadorned chronicle of heroin addiction, told in lean, deadpan prose that reads like reportage. Many praise its raw honesty, accessibility, and value as a historical snapshot, calling it an unglamorous, influential portrait of dependence and withdrawal with flashes of gallows humor. Others find it monotonous, emotionally detached, or technically repetitive, questioning its literary importance despite its impact. Overall, it is seen as a short, unsettling, and gripping account whose force comes from clinical candor rather than plot or redemption.
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