The definitive text of William S. Burroughss early, long-unpublished novel, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, set to be adapted for film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Daniel Craig

Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985,Queeris a haunting tale of possession and exorcism. Both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, it is both Burroughss 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,Queerfollows William Lee, the protagonist of Burroughss debut novelJunky, a man afflicted with acute heroin withdrawal and romantic yearnings for Eugene Allerton. As Lee breaks down over the course of his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest. Now a cult classic and a highly regarded part of his oeuvre, reissued on the seventieth anniversary of the year of its writing, this edition ofQueerfeatures a contextualizing introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris.

Paperback | 208 pages | 5.50″ x 8.25″