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1) Queer
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in Mexico City during the early fifities, the story follows William Lee from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene as he pursues a young man named Allerton.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Wild Boys is a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.
3) Junky
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
6 CDs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Burroughs' first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through junk neighborhoods in New York, New Orleans and Mexico City, through time spent kicking, time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, Junky is a field report (by a writer trained in anthropology...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[fourth edition].
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find "yage, " the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrative of his adventures that later appeared as "The Yage Letters." For this edition, Oliver Harris has gone back to the original manuscripts and untangled the history of the text, telling the fascinating...
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