Hogg - Hardcover

Delany, Samuel R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0932511880 ISBN 13: 9780932511881

Publisher: Fiction Collective Two, 1995

Synopsis

Acclaimed science fiction novelist Samuel Delany wrote Hogg over twenty years ago. Since then it has been one of America's most famous "unpublishable" novels. The subject matter of Hogg is America's culture of sexual violence and degeneration. This theme is not, however, examined from the politically safe perspective of the victim. Rather, Delany explores his disturbing protagonist, Hogg, on his own turf - rape, pederasty, sexual excess. Delany does not adopt an overt moral position, but the book is one of the most moral in recent American fiction. It exposes an area of violence and sexual abuse from the inside. As such, it is a brave book.

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Review

"There is no question that Hogg by Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit."-Norman Mailer; "Hogg is a truly significant book. It is distasteful, raw, and upsetting; it also treats some of the sexual taboos that Americans do not want addressed in either art or politics. Hogg is an artistic triumph, as well as a political one."-John O'Brien, Dalkey Archive Press"

About the Author

Samuel R. Delany is one of the most celebrated writers of speculative fiction and is also a noted author of scripts, a director, and the editor of two short films. His novel Babel-17(Vintage, 2002) won the Science Fiction Writers of America Award in 1966 and he has also won four Nebula Awards and one Hugo Award. His other books include The Bridge of Lost Desire (Arbor House, 1987), Dhalgren (University Press of New England, 1996), Atlantis: Three Tales (Wesleyan University Press, 1995), The Star Pits (Tor Books, 1989), and Equinox (Masquerade, 1994). He currently teaches Queer Studies at Temple University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fiction Collective Two
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0932511880
• ISBN 13: 9780932511881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 219