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Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Junky by William S. Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Queer 3. Burroughs , Jack Kerouac 3. Vollmer favored Benzedrine. In , Vollmer became pregnant.

Burroughs, who could be startlingly moralistic, abhorred abortion; and so a son, Billy, joined the family. Envisioning himself as a gentleman farmer, Burroughs had acquired a spread in East Texas, where he cultivated marijuana, though not very well. For three years, he took drugs, drank, picked up boys, hosted friends, and cut a sorry figure as a father. It features terse, crackling reportage, with echoes of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.

He had contracted a lifelong mania for guns from duck-hunting excursions with his father, and was never unarmed if he could help it. He fired a pistol from about nine feet away. The bullet struck Vollmer in the forehead, at the hairline. She was twenty-eight. Released on bail, Burroughs might have faced trial had not Jurado, in a fit of road rage, shot a socially prominent young man and, when his victim died of septicemia, fled the country.

Burroughs did the same, and a Mexican court convicted him in absentia of manslaughter, sentencing him to two years. The heat and smoke caused Burroughs to ask to truncate the proceedings. Burroughs sent Billy to be raised by Laura and Mortimer, in St.

Louis, and joined them, in , after they moved to Palm Beach, Florida. He needs a motorboat to take him upriver:. Tomorrow the river will be higher. Its heroes include Hassan-i Sabbah, the historical leader of a sometimes homicidal sect in eleventh- and twelfth-century Persia. Most of the characters run to type: dissolute quasi-aristocratic friends, interchangeable boys, sycophants in steadily increasing numbers.

Most prominent is Brion Gysin, a mediocre artist of calligraphic abstractions. Burroughs met him in Tangier, in , and bonded with him in Paris at a dump in the Latin Quarter, known as the Beat Hotel, whose motherly owner adored literary wanderers. Gysin and Burroughs deemed each other clairvoyant geniuses.

It flopped. These have been widely exhibited and sold. They are terrible. Discouraged by what he regarded as a lack of student talent, he felt the gig was more of a hassle than it was worth. Despite his rather aloof persona and quintessential withered appearance, in the s and s Burroughs enjoyed about as hip an image as one could acquire. Using this cultural currency to pursue an acting career of sorts, he appeared in films such as Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy , in which he played a defrocked priest.

Burroughs collaborated with R. The ceremony was attended by his beatnik friend, poet Allen Ginsburg. BY Ray Cavanaugh. He was a child of privilege. He pulled a van Gogh of sorts. He co-wrote a novel with Jack Kerouac. He went one year without a bath. He killed his wife.