Burroughs' first novel a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug
dependency cures and relapses remains the most unflinching unsentimental account of
addiction ever written. Through junk neighbourhoods in New York New Orleans and Mexico City
through time spent kicking time spent dealing and time rolling drunks for money through junk
sickness and a sanatorium Junky is a field report (by a writer trained in anthropology at
Harvard) from the American post-war drug underground. A cult classic it has influenced
generations of writers with its raw sparse and unapologetic tone. This definitive edition
painstakingly recreates the author's original text word for word.
