Description
Originally written in 1952 but not published until 1985, Queer is an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel.
Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee, the protagonist of Burroughs’s debut novel Junky, in his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene.
In this cult classic, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest.
The source for Luca Guadagnino’s film starring Daniel Craig, Queer is poised to draw a new generation of readers.