Last Exit to Brooklyn - Softcover

Selby Jr., Hubert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747549923 ISBN 13: 9780747549925

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2000

Synopsis

An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected and volatile youth who has never been on the right side of the law; Tralala, who can find no escape from her loveless existence; and, Harry, a power-hungry strike leader with a fatal secret. Living on the edge, always walking on the wild side, their alienation and aggression masks a desperate, deep human need for affection and kinship. Banned in Britain on first publication in 1964, "Last Exit to Brooklyn" brought its ex-marine, drug addict author instant notoriety. Its truthfulness stunned a generation and continues to shock to this day.

About this title

Review:

'A masterpiece' -- Al Alvarez

'An urgent tickertape from hell' -- Spectator

'Last Exit to Brooklyn is a tour de force of muscular, rhythmic prose' -- New Statesman

'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists...so to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America' -- New York Times

From the Publisher:

Hubert Selby Jr's classic and controversial masterpiece of the wild underside of New York life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0747549923
• ISBN 13: 9780747549925
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320