Queer by William S. Burroughs Ari Folman Why do we assume a

Why do we assume a good-looking person will be more competent

Out of its ashes rose a bold new reimagining of the life and times of the Man of Steel

building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style

Queer follows William Lee's hopeless pursuit of desire from bar to bar in the American expatriate scene

and a war-torn world in which rebellion is the only path to freedom

Queer by William S. Burroughs Ari Folman Why do we assume aOriginally written in 1952 but not published till 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