Queer

Name: Queer
Author: William S. Burroughs

by William S. Burroughs

Novel exploring homosexuality and desire in 1940s New York during a cultural period

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William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs was the most radical formal innovator of the Beat Generation, inventing the cut-up technique and writing hallucinatory visions of addiction and control in Naked Lunch. His work challenged every literary and moral taboo.

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