William S. Burroughs, legendary drug addict, founder member of the Beats & author of Naked Lunch, relates with unflinching realism the addict`s life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, & the horrors of cold turkey & back again. An original, first-hand account which outraged fifties America, Junky remains one of the most raw & mesmerizing accounts of heroin addiction ever written.