William S. Burroughs

Een in Mexico-City wonende, aan drugs verslaafde Amerikaan probeert af te kicken en vertoont alle extreme verschijnselen die daarmee gepaard gaan.

Queer

A Novel

Hsin-Hao Yu

gabriele

Laura Gatti

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 hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.

Charley

Taylor Stevenson

sasha 

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yasi

Anna 

Katie

Maurice FitzGerald

marta

Nadav Spiegelman

Ture Strange Nilsson

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

K. Qua

Cola

Lennox Johnson 

John Balek

Sarah Agterhuis

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