# Naked Lunch

**Author(s):** William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/naked-lunch/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, autobiography
**Publisher:** Grove Weidenfeld
**Published:** Thu Jan 01 1959 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780802133175
**ISBN-10:** 0802133177
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/naked-lunch

## Description

Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed as a series of inter-connected adventures set in locations as diverse as the U.S. Mexico and Morocco sees the protagonist, Burroughs’ alter-ego William Lee on the run from the police and always searching for his next fix. Burroughs once stated that the chapters can be read in any order.

## SageChimp reader verdict

Naked Lunch has no unpaid published reviews on SageChimp yet. That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/naked-lunch/verdict.json

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