Last Exit to Brooklyn

Selby, Hubert Jr.

Verlag: Grove Press, 1964

Beschreibung

The novel describes the seedy underbelly of the Red Hook waterfront neighborhood in the Brooklyn of the 1950's, which is depicted as a wasteland prowled by drug use, whores and homosexuality. When it was published by Grove Press in 1964, its repulsive language and blast-furnace images made the novel difficult either to accept or reject. The book was the subject of an obscenity trial in the United Kingdom, where prosecutors sought to determine whether it might deprave and corrupt its readers. Selby's power is in his ability to stay with the grotesque aspects of these wretched lives, but not once suggest that they are not capable of love, or worthy of it. Over fifty years on, it seems a more vital work than ever. In days of such human cruelty and pettiness and stupidity, we need reminding that we are all capable of savage compassion as well as the contagion of hatred. In 1989 'Last Exit' was made into a film by the German director Uli Edel, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young and Jerry Orbach. At the time of his death in 2004, Mr. Selby, a high school dropout, taught a graduate writing class at the University of Southern California. Near fine with minor edge-wear. First edition, fifth printing, inscribed by the author. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 274778

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Last Exit to Brooklyn

Verlag: Grove Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1964

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition

Art des Buches: book