The Willow Tree (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Jr., Hubert Selby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014119569X ISBN 13: 9780141195698

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-04-26 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics 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 be lost. but. under the unusual care of the reclusive doctor he knows only as Moishe. Bobby might just have stumbled into a hopeful future of which he could never have previously dreamed. The Willow Tree is a searing trip of despair and hope through the lives of Americas dispossessed inner-city residents.

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Product Description:

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 be lost, but, under the unusual care of the reclusive doctor he knows only as Moishe, Bobby might just have stumbled into a hopeful future of which he could never have previously dreamed. The Willow Tree is a searing trip of despair and hope through the lives of America's dispossessed inner-city residents.

Review:

Selby's work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky's (The New York Times Book Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 014119569X
• ISBN 13: 9780141195698
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272