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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
Category: Cult Fiction | Series: An Evergreen book
The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America, " "Last Exit to Brooklyn" is a classic of postwar American writing. Selby's searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is a fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as when it was first published twen ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Category: Fiction | Series: HS
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 trouble ...Show more
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Category: Fiction
Features such characters as: Harry, the strike leader, who during his weeks of power discovers something of his true nature; Tralala, who rejects the only love she is offered and sinks swiftly to the lowest level of prostitution; and Georgette, the 'hip queer' with pathetic aspirations to culture.
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Hubert Selby Jr, Hubert Selby Jr.
Category: Fiction | Series: HS
Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers and dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have and st ...Show more
Requiem for a Dream: A Novel by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Category: Fiction
Over twenty years after its first publication in 1978, Requiem for a Dream makes it to the big screen in a major motion picture starring Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Jared Leto, and Christopher McDonald. Directed by Darren Aronofsky, the highly acclaimed director of Pi, the movie wa ...Show more
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