by William S. Burroughs

2012 Penguin Essentials edition (first published in USA 1953) - Edited with an introduction by Oliver Harris - 133 pages plus introduction and prologue

William S Burroughs. legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats and author of Naked Lunch, relates with unflinching realism the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, and the horrors of cold turkey and back again.

An original, first-hand account which outraged fifties America, Junky remains one of the most raw and mesmerizing accounts of heroin addiction ever written

"As vital and visceral as ever" Daily Telegraph