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Queer: A Novel by William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris, William Burroughs is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Queer: A Novel about?
For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous "routines" brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow Naked Lunch yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding. In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work. "
Who reads Queer: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- William S. Burroughs, Oliver Harris, William Burroughs
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780140083897
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (484 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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