{"product_id":"9780140083897","title":"Queer","description":"For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, \u003cb\u003eQueer\u003c\/b\u003e remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, \u003cb\u003eQueer\u003c\/b\u003e is the story of William Lee, a man afflicted with both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic and sexual yearnings for an indifferent user named Eugene Allerton. The narrative is punctuated by Lee's outrageous \"routines\" — brilliant comic monologues that foreshadow \u003cb\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/b\u003e —yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding.\u003cp\u003eIn his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William S. Burroughs","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48259079504032,"sku":"9780140083897","price":7.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0ab87482-2c47-4a8d-883e-7bce8bee6c71.jpg?v=1704887176","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780140083897","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}