Publisher's Synopsis
Queer is a love story - the account of William Lee's painfully circular seduction of Eugene Allerton in Mexico City, and the romantic agonies he suffers. In his introduction Burroughs discusses frankly and courageously the shattering event that happened after the occurrences described in Queer, and how this event has haunted his life and work.
'A major work . . . The love story is told with astonishing economy, Burroughs conjuring the heights and the depths in an intensely lyrical shorthand which seems to imitate and not travesty feeling' Sunday Times
'Shocking the world all over again, Burroughs has written a thoughtful and sensitive study of unrequited love . . . Retroactively the book humanizes his work' Martin Amis, Observer
'A blueprint for many of Burroughs' themes, narrative techniques and characterizations, it helps us come to grips with the dark humour, violent energy and unsettling vision of this writer who has forced himself into our consciousness and seized a place in literary history' New York Times Book Review
'The only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius' Norman Mailer
