Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition by William S. Burroughs

Written in 1952 but suppressed until 1985, Queer is Burroughs’s lone realist love story—an autobiographical dive into desire, obsession, and the American expatriate scene in 1950s Mexico City. Through William Lee’s bar‑to‑bar search for connection, Burroughs’s trademark mix of dark humour and grotesque fantasy emerges. This 25th Anniversary Edition, with Oliver Harris’s illuminating introduction, uncovers the novel’s hidden history and its crucial role as the precursor to Naked Lunch.

Introduction by: Oliver Harris
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Format: Paperback, 208 pp.
Publisher / Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd / Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780141189918
Published: 25 November 2010 (UK)
Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post‑1945); Of specific Gay interest
Dimensions: 197 × 129 × 13 mm
Weight: 158 g