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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.
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
The streets are seething with barely concealed menace, threatening to explode with the primal rage and desires of the hoodlums, hookers, transvestites, alcoholics and homosexuals who call New York home. Here, life is raw, love is brutal, and one must fight to survive. Banned by British courts in 1967, a ...Show more
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
Room by Hubert Selby
Category: Fiction | Series: HS
The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture. This is an examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other.
Song of the Silent Snow by Hubert Selby
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: HS
Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie mottoes, but panics when these mottoes turn against him; a date goes so perfectly a man talks himself out of ever seeing the woman again; and, a commuter finds hi ...Show more
The Demon by Hubert Selby
Category: unmapped | Series: HS
Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children.
The Willow Tree by Hubert Selby
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: HS
Bobby - young, black and happily in love with Hispanic girlfriend Maria - lives in a cramped Bronx apartment with his mother, his younger siblings and walls full of rats. But when Bobby and Maria are brutally attacked by a Hispanic gang, leaving the couple severely injured, everything changes. Maria may ...Show more
Waiting Period by Hubert Selby
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: HS
Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, the suicidal narrator of "Waiting Period" attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer malfunction causes a delay with the gun license: a life-saving event that sees the man questioning why he should die when there are so many others he ...Show more