Thus, one of the creative visionaries of the Beat movement recites the junk equation, the calculus by which heroin redefines the addicts world. Burroughss quasi-autobiographical narrative makes for a raw, fragmented and disturbing account of hallucinations, ghostly nocturnal wanderings, strange sexual encounters and quests to ease the hunger of the needle. This legendary account of one mans challenge to turn self-destruction into art is as shocking and powerful as it has ever been.