Requiem for a Dream - Softcover

Selby Jr., Hubert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714530107 ISBN 13: 9780714530109

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Now a major film by cult director Darren Aronofsky, Requiem for a Dream is a modern-day fable set in New York. Lonely widow Sara Goldfarb nurtures fantasies about appearing on prime-time TV, while her son, Harry, along with girlfriend Marion, plans his break into big-time drug dealing. They both move blindly onwards, contorting their lives into coils of self-deception as they struggle to keep their dreams alive.

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Review:

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)

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)

Selby brings a scorching light to a limited area of human existence, which most people know of but do not know (Newsweek)

About the Author:

Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in Brooklyn in 1928. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK. His other books include The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, Song of the Silent Snow, The Willow Tree and Waiting Period. In 2000, Requiem for a Dream starred Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn and was directed by Darren Aronofsky. Hubert Selby Jr died in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California in April 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0714530107
• ISBN 13: 9780714530109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279