Last Exit to Brooklyn (Bloomsbury Classic Reads) - Softcover

Selby Jr., Hubert

3.92

27,333 ratings by Goodreads

9780747574590: Last Exit to Brooklyn (Bloomsbury Classic Reads)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747574596 ISBN 13: 9780747574590

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2004

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Last Exit To Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes. 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; 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.

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Review:

'As dramatic and immediate as the click of a switchblade knife' -- Los Angeles Times

'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

'Should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in 100 years' -- Allen Ginsberg

‘A masterpiece’ -- Al Alvarez

‘One of the six best novelists writing in the English language’ -- Financial Times

From the Publisher:

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

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