Listen and read

Step into an infinite world of stories

  • Read and listen as much as you want
  • Over 950 000 titles
  • Exclusive titles + Storytel Originals
  • Easy to cancel anytime
Try now
image.devices-Singapore 2x
Cover for Junky: The Definitive Text of 'Junk'
69 Ratings

4.2

Duration
7H 7min
Language
English
Format
Category

Classics

A shocking exposé of the desperate subculture surrounding addiction, William S. Burroughs' cult classic Junky is now available for the first time on unabridged audio

Burroughs’ first novel, a largely autobiographical account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses, remains the most unflinching, unsentimental account of addiction ever written. Through time spent kicking and time spent dealing, through junk sickness and a sanatorium, Junky is a field report from the American post-war drug underground. It has influenced generations of writers with its raw, sparse and unapologetic tone.

© 2012 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781471209789

Release date

Audiobook: 1 December 2012

Others also enjoyed ...

  1. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
    And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks Jack Kerouac
  2. Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text William S. Burroughs
  3. Hot Water Music
    Hot Water Music Charles Bukowski
  4. Pulp
    Pulp Charles Bukowski
  5. Tropic of Capricorn
    Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller
  6. Factotum
    Factotum Charles Bukowski
  7. Hollywood
    Hollywood Charles Bukowski
  8. South of No North
    South of No North Charles Bukowski
  9. Journey to the End of the Night
    Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  10. Post Office: A Novel
    Post Office: A Novel Charles Bukowski
  11. The Crying of Lot 49
    The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
  12. On Drinking
    On Drinking Charles Bukowski
  13. Dead Souls
    Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
  14. Crash
    Crash J. G. Ballard
  15. The Violent Bear It Away
    The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O’Connor
  16. The RUM DIARY: A Novel
    The RUM DIARY: A Novel Hunter S. Thompson
  17. Tropic of Cancer
    Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
  18. Amerika: A New Translation by Mark Harman Based on the Restored Text
    Amerika: A New Translation by Mark Harman Based on the Restored Text Franz Kafka
  19. Herzog
    Herzog Saul Bellow
  20. Leaves of Grass
    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
  21. Ham On Rye: A Novel
    Ham On Rye: A Novel Charles Bukowski
  22. The Dying Animal
    The Dying Animal Philip Roth
  23. The Soft Machine: The Restored Text
    The Soft Machine: The Restored Text William S. Burroughs
  24. Other Voices, Other Rooms
    Other Voices, Other Rooms Truman Capote
  25. Queer
    Queer William S. Burroughs
  26. The Other Mrs Walker
    The Other Mrs Walker Mary Paulson-Ellis
  27. Wise Blood
    Wise Blood Flannery O’Connor
  28. Cosmopolis
    Cosmopolis Don DeLillo
  29. Mao II
    Mao II Don DeLillo
  30. The Flowers of Evil
    The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire
  31. Allen Ginsberg Poetry Collection
    Allen Ginsberg Poetry Collection Allen Ginsberg
  32. The Book of Disquiet
    The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
  33. A Moveable Feast
    A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway
  34. White
    White Bret Easton Ellis
  35. On Cats
    On Cats Charles Bukowski
  36. Swann's Way
    Swann's Way Marcel Proust
  37. Everything That Rises Must Converge
    Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor
  38. The Grass Harp
    The Grass Harp Truman Capote
  39. Welcome to the Monkey House
    Welcome to the Monkey House Kurt Vonnegut
  40. T. S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems
    T. S. Eliot Reads The Waste Land, Four Quartets and Other Poems T. S. Eliot
  41. The Painted Bird
    The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosinski
  42. The Yage Letters
    The Yage Letters Authors Various
  43. A Streetcar Named Desire
    A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
  44. Women: A Novel
    Women: A Novel Charles Bukowski
  45. White Noise
    White Noise Don DeLillo
  46. The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories Nikolai Gogol
  47. To Have and Have Not
    To Have and Have Not Ernest Hemingway
  48. Snuff
    Snuff Chuck Palahniuk
  49. The Garden of Eden
    The Garden of Eden Ernest Hemingway
  50. Narcissus and Goldmund
    Narcissus and Goldmund Hermann Hesse
  51. Everyman
    Everyman Philip Roth
  52. Bagombo Snuff Box
    Bagombo Snuff Box Kurt Vonnegut
  53. Ulysses
    Ulysses James Joyce
  54. Essential Bukowski: Poetry
    Essential Bukowski: Poetry Charles Bukowski
  55. Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth
    Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth Hermann Hesse
  56. The Castle
    The Castle Franz Kafka
  57. Tender is the Night
    Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
  58. Steppenwolf
    Steppenwolf Hermann Hesse
  59. Underworld
    Underworld Don DeLillo
  60. Shooting an Elephant and other Essays
    Shooting an Elephant and other Essays George Orwell
  61. The Castle
    The Castle Franz Kafka
  62. Seize the Day
    Seize the Day Saul Bellow
  63. The Art of the Novel
    The Art of the Novel Milan Kundera
  64. A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
    A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition Ernest Hemingway
  65. The Belly of Paris
    The Belly of Paris Émile Zola
  66. The Glass Bead Game
    The Glass Bead Game Hermann Hesse
  67. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Laurence Sterne
  68. Native Son
    Native Son Richard Wright
  69. Child of God
    Child of God Cormac McCarthy
  70. Exit Ghost
    Exit Ghost Philip Roth
  71. The Crucible
    The Crucible Arthur Miller
  72. The Adventures of Augie March
    The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
  73. The Charterhouse of Parma
    The Charterhouse of Parma Stendhal
  74. Men without Women
    Men without Women Ernest Hemingway
  75. Humboldt’s Gift
    Humboldt’s Gift Saul Bellow
  76. The Captain’s Verses: The Love Poems
    The Captain’s Verses: The Love Poems Pablo Neruda
  77. Essential Vonnegut Interviews
    Essential Vonnegut Interviews Kurt Vonnegut
  78. Americana
    Americana Don DeLillo
  79. Orlando - A Biography
    Orlando - A Biography Virginia Woolf
  80. Desolation Peak: Collected Writings
    Desolation Peak: Collected Writings Jack Kerouac
  81. The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts
    The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts Milan Kundera

Features:

  • Over 950 000 titles

  • Kids Mode (child safe environment)

  • Download books for offline access

  • Cancel anytime

Most popular

Unlimited

For those who want to listen and read without limits.

S$12.98 /month
3 days for free
  • 1 account

  • Unlimited Access

  • Unlimited listening

  • Cancel anytime

Try now

Unlimited Bi-yearly

For those who want to listen and read without limits.

S$69 /6 months
14 days for free
Save 11%
  • 1 account

  • Unlimited Access

  • Unlimited listening

  • Cancel anytime

Try now

Unlimited Yearly

For those who want to listen and read without limits.

S$119 /year
14 days for free
Save 24%
  • 1 account

  • Unlimited Access

  • Unlimited listening

  • Cancel anytime

Try now

Family

For those who want to share stories with family and friends.

From S$14.90/month
  • 2-3 accounts

  • Unlimited Access

  • Unlimited listening

  • Cancel anytime

2 accounts

S$14.90 /month
Try now