Naked Lunch

(New York): Grove Press, (1959).

Price: $350.00

Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in very good or better first issue dustwrapper with a chip and small tears, mostly on the front panel. Basis for the David Cronenberg film featuring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, and Roy Scheider. A beautiful copy.

Item #447840

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Item #447840 Naked Lunch. William BURROUGHS.

William S. Burroughs
birth name: William Seward Burroughs
born: 2/5/1914
died: 9/2/1997

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Biography

American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world. His sexual expliciteness (he was an avowed and outspoken homosexual) and the frankness with which he dealt with his own experiences as a drug addict won him a following among writers of the Beat Movement. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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