![]() Burroughs was living off a trust, receiving one hundred and fifty dollars a month, and did not have to work. ![]() After graduating he “drifted around Europe” for a while, before being drafted into the Army, which he escaped on a “nut-house record”. He went to a top university (“one of the Big Three”) and hated it. In this prologue Burroughs describes his upbringing in the American suburbs as a “comfortable capsule” that he found stifling. ![]() Junky begins with a prologue written by Burroughs – an attempt (requested by the publishers) to explain how a ‘normal’ citizen from a stable family becomes an addict. Junky is an attempt to explain – as can only be explained by someone who has walked the path – why junk addicts become addicted, why they have a relationship with junk for life (no matter how many times they quit), and what the all-consuming world of junk is really about. ![]() ![]() Drawn in part from his own life-long relationship with junk, Burroughs describes in matter-of-fact detail the realities of addiction. William Burroughs’s novel Junky (originally published under the pen name William Lee) is a stark and honest account of the life of a heroin addict. ![]()
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