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[INCOMPLETE SINCE FEBRUARY] Cleanup: Queer
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8. Current UK Paperback ACE: Queer (ISBN 9780141189918)- The publication date is incorrect. Based on the dates I can find on the UK publisher’s website and when other editions were published, I believe the correct date should be September 27, 2012.
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9. Odyssey Editions Kindle: Queer (ISBN B00BGGFVBK)
This edition is out of print so I am working from an archived version of the Amazon page: https://web.archive.org/web/201411172...
- Oliver Harris needs to be added with the Editor role.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
Set in Mexico City during the early 1950s, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest.
Originally written in 1952 but not published until 1985, Queer is an enigma—both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs' only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch.
Edited from the original manuscripts and introduced by renowned Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, Queer is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism, a key to the Burroughsian oeuvre, and a novel with a history of secrets.
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10. Dutch Edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
- The ISBN-13 is missing. It should be 9789020423259.
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11. Finnish Edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
- The ISBN-13 is missing. It should be 9789525194609.
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12. Romanian Edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
- The ISBN-13 is missing. It should be 9789736812477.
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13. Bulgarian Edition: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
- The ISBN-13 is missing. It should be 9789545972256.
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14. Digital Audiobook: Queer (ISBN 9781470382889)
Information sourced from publisher site: https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9...
- Andrew Garman and T. Ryder Smith need to be added with the Narrator role.
- The publication date is incorrect. It should be February 1, 2014.
- The page count is incorrect. It should be 5.
- The format is incorrect. It should be Audiobook.
- The cover art is incorrect. Correct art here: https://rb-sample-assets.s3.amazonaws... // https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9...
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows:
For more than three decades, while its writer's world fame increased, Queer remained unpublished because of its forthright depiction of homosexual longings. Set in the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the forties, Queer 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 Naked Lunch -- yet the atmosphere is heavy with foreboding. In his extraordinary introduction, Burroughs reflects on the shattering events in his life that lay behind this work.
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15. Missing Edition: Another Digital Audiobook
Sourced from publisher site: https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9...
TITLE: Queer
AUTHOR: William S. Burroughs
NARRATORS: Andrew Garman and T. Ryder Smith
ISBN-10: 1471242552
ISBN-13: 9781471242557
ASIN: 1471242552
PUBLISHER: Recorded Books, Inc.
DATE PUBLISHED: August 1, 2013
NUMBER OF PAGES: 5
FORMAT: Audiobook
DESCRIPTION:
Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a dazzling political novel
Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges; a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humour and the Ugly American at his ugliest. Burroughs' only realist love story, Queer is a haunting tale of possession and exorcism.
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://rb-sample-assets.s3.amazonaws... // https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9...
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16. Invalid Editions
All of these editions are invalid and were added by the Goodreads bot importing secondhand Amazon sellers. They need to be marked invalid.
A. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
B. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
C. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
D. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
E. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
F. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
G. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
H. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
I. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
J. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
K. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
L. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
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17. Completely Unrelated Book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
This isn’t Queer by Burroughs. If you look up the ISBN on Amazon and AbeBooks, you get an entirely unrelated book that has somehow been given the metadata for Queer. It should be separated from the other editions and turned into a completely separate book.
1 and 7 done, all of the 16 I could (apparently you can no longer mark an edition as deleted if there's even 1 rating/review), and 17.
Done: 2-3, 6, 14, 15Prev. completed: 9
The following need to have ISBNs added by special request: 10-13
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As a note: whenever there is an edition where Oliver Harris needs to be added, this author is the correct Oliver Harris: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
1. 2010 Penguin Edition: Queer (ISBN 9780143117834)
- Oliver Harris’s role should be Editor.
- The page count is incorrect. I’m holding a copy and it should be 150. The introduction at the beginning uses Roman numerals and it is very lengthy.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
Originally written in 1952 but not published until 1985, Queer is an enigma – both an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel, Burroughs’ only realist love story and a montage of comic-grotesque fantasies that paved the way for his masterpiece, Naked Lunch. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee’s hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. As Lee breaks down, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the Ugly American at his ugliest. A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is also a novel with a history of secrets, as this new edition reveals.
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2. 1986 Picador Paperback: Queer (ISBN 9780330300162)
- The publisher is incorrect. It should be Picador.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover of the book:
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 affected his work.
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3. Grove Press Edition: Queer (ISBN 9780802160560)
- Oliver Harris needs to be added with the Editor role.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the back cover:
A haunting tale of possession and exorcism, Queer is William S. Burroughs’s early novel with a history of secrets, now published in a definitive edition with an introduction by the eminent Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris. Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an unflinching autobiographical self-portrait and a coruscatingly political novel. Set in Mexico City during the early fifties, Queer follows William Lee, the protagonist of Burroughs’s debut novel Junky, in his hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene. In this cult classic, the trademark Burroughsian voice emerges, a maniacal mix of self-lacerating humor and the ugly American at his ugliest. The source for Luca Guadagnino’s film starring Daniel Craig, Queer is poised to draw a new generation of readers.
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4. UK Penguin Edition + Kindle ACE Creation: Queer (ASIN B008R96MPS)
- “Penguin Modern Classics” needs to be removed from the Editions field.
- An ACE needs to be created of this edition. Almost of the metadata on the existing Kindle edition is already correct, but the following changes need to be made to the newly-created ACE:
- “Movie Tie-In Edition” or something similar should be added to the Editions field on the ACE
- The ACE publication date should be 2024 (I can’t find a more specific date than that)
- The ACE cover art needs to be changed. Correct art available here: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://amzn.eu/d/aDciKJT
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5. UK Penguin Ebook Edition + Ebook ACE Creation: Queer (ISBN 9780141975665
- The same details as in Entry 4 need to be added/changed for the ebook ACE. Cover art link here: https://cdn.penguin.co.uk/dam-assets/... // https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57617...
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6. First US Hardcover Edition: Queer (ISBN 9780670808335)
- “1st” should be removed from the Editions field.
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:
For more than thirty years – decades that saw William S. Burroughs transformed from a writer of near-total obscurity to a cultural figure of international fame – the legendary novel Queer has remained in manuscript form. Its publication now, at the zenith of one of the most influential careers in American letters, is a major literary event. It is also, as readers will learn, an act of considerable courage and painful self-revelation on the part of its creator.
Queer is a love story. Its protagonist, William Lee, moves through the corrupt and spectral Mexico City of the nineteen-forties, afflicted by both acute heroin withdrawal and romantic agonies for one Eugene Allerton – a consummate user. Lee conducts a painfully circular seduction of Allerton, punctuated by outrageous “routines” – brilliant yet clownish comic monologues whose coruscating style of humor would later flower so spectacularly in Naked Lunch. Although events are related in an eerily factual and objective manner, a pall of evil and foreboding hangs over the proceedings. As Burroughs notes in his introduction, this atmosphere is connected to the shattering event that occurred immediately after the conclusion of Queer. What Burroughs has to say about himself and his writing in this introduction and what Queer itself reveals by implication amount to a most naked and immensely moving display of candor.
Mysterious, funny, haunting in its evocation of sexual need, Queer cannot be forgotten.
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7. First UK Hardcover Edition: Queer / William S. Burroughs (ISBN 9780330294065)
- The title is incorrect. It should just be Queer
- The page count is missing. According to WorldCat, it should be 122: https://search.worldcat.org/title/143...
- The description is incorrect. It should read as follows, transcribed from the jacket:
Almost thirty-five years after it was written, the publication of a legendary novel by one of the greatest living American writers.
For more than three decades Queer has remained in manuscript form – at first due to the reluctance of publishers to touch a book with such a candid homosexual content, and later due to its author’s own reluctance to make public the painful events it recounts. Now, at the zenith of one of the most notorious and influential careers in American letters, Queer will finally reach the avid public that has been waiting for it.
Queer is a love story – the account of William Lee’s painfully circular seduction of Eugene Allerton in the Mexico City of the 1940s, and the romantic agonies he suffers. It marks the first appearance of Burroughs’ coruscating style of humour, which was later to flower so spectacularly in The Naked Lunch. 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 affected his work. The publication of this book is a major literary event – the most revealing work ever by a unique artist.