Junky by William S. Burroughs Groundswell Speaker 2024 'I wish David Sumpter had

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Junky by William S. Burroughs Groundswell Speaker 2024 'I wish David Sumpter hadA shocking expos of the desperate subculture surrounding heroin addiction, William S. Burroughs' Junky is edited with an introduction by Oliver Harris in Penguin Modern Classics. 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,