Last Exit to Brooklyn (SIGNED)

Selby Jr., Hubert

ISBN 10: 0802131379 / ISBN 13: 9780802131379

Published by Grove Press/Evergreen, New York, 1988

About this Item

1st Evergreen Edition/3rd Printing tradesize softcover (1988). SIGNED (inscribed) by Selby on half-title page in 1990. tight and square with light rubbing at edges, no spine crease. 304 pages. Note: No International orders for this item.

Seller Inventory # 038790

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Exit to Brooklyn (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Grove Press/Evergreen, New York
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802131379
• ISBN 13: 9780802131379
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine +
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America's cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling in the back alleys of Brooklyn. This explosive best-seller has come to be regarded as a classic of modern American writing.

Review

"An extraordinary achievement . . . a vision of hell so stern it cannot be chuckled or raged aside."--The New York Times Book Review

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

"The raw strength and concentrated power of Last Exit to Brooklyn make it one of the really great works of fiction about the underground labyrinth of our cities."--Harry T. Moore

"Last Exit to Brooklynshould explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years."--Allen Ginsberg

"Drops like a sledgehammer. Emotionally beaten, one leaves it a different person--slightly changed, educated by pain, as Goethe said."--The Nation

"Selby has an unerring instinct for honing our collapse into novels as glittering and as cutting as pure, block, jagged glass."--Saturday Review

"Scorching, unrelenting, pulsing."--Newsweek

"The marriage of brutal street life and gorgeous bebop prose." --Richard Price, from his "My Five Most Essential Books," published in Newsweek (April 13, 2009)