THE MOST FAMOUS BOOK ON DRUG ADDICTION EVER WRITTEN

William Burroughs became a drug addict during the last war. Through years of incredible pain and privation he progressed from 'soft' drugs to the killer Heroin.
In JUNKIE, Burroughs lays bare the world of the fix - the seedy bars, the pushers and the bright young lives being dissipated and ruined.
This is not a book for the squeamish or anyone who refuses to accept the unvarnished truth about drugs.
It has rightly become a modern classic.
'He is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius' - NORMAN MAILER

THE NAKED LUNCH is one of the most important and at the same time one of the most controversial novels to have appeared since the war. It is considered by many distinguished literary figures as the major American novel of our time.

Burroughs has used his own experiences as a former drug addict - and the extraordinary residue of unusual knowledge that these experiences left with him - to write a satirical masterpiece that cuts like a scalpel under the surface skin of reality to the festering sores beneath that plague modern man.

Originally published in Great Britain by John Calder (Publishers) Limited

John Calder Edition published 1964
Corgi Edition published 1968
© 1959 by William Burroughs

Originally published in English by Olympia Press, Paris 1959, and subsequently by Grove Press, New York 1962, Sugar Editore, Milan 1963, and Editions Gallimard, Paris 1964.