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        Naked Lunch


        setting

        US; Mexico; Tangier; Interzone

        time

        Unknown

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1959

        page count

        304

        difficulty

        Extreme

        main characters

        William Lee

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves, setting up their devil doll stool pigeons, crooning over my spoon and dropper I throw away at Washington Square Station, vault a turnstile and two flights down the iron stairs, catch an uptown A train . . . Young, good looking, crew cut, Ivy League, advertising exec type fruit holds the door back for me. I am evidently his idea of a character.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)