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Last Exit to Brooklyn

Author:	Hubert Selby
Series:	HS

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Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. "Last Exit to Brooklyn" was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers including Anthony Burgess.

Reviews

Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America New York Times Book Review An urgent tickertape from hell Spectator Selby deploys street slang, common speech, argot and scatology to create a high poetic art...it seems to derive from the greatest American poetry--Whitman, Pound, Williams, and Olson The Nation

General Fields

ISBN : 9780141195650
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Penguin Classics
Publication date : June 2011
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 16mm
Availability date : August 2011
Product Type : books

Special Fields

Author : Hubert Selby
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1111
Pages : 272