Last Exit To Brooklyn.

Selby, Jr., Hubert

Published by The Grove Press, New York, 1964

About this Item

First edition of Selby's first book. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Glenn With All Best Wishes H. Selby Jr 6/22/91." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Cover design by Roy Kuhlman. An exceptional example. Hubert Selbyâ s fiercely controversial first novel, Last Exit to Brooklyn, shocked many at the time with its stark view of a Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood in the 1950s, yet won select critical regard for its â authentic powerâ ¦ Despite its bleakness, the bookâ s underlying message of redemption through self-destruction caught on in a United States about to enter the radical 1960sâ ¦ His prose was all Red Hook, spare, direct, as subtle as a punch in the gut from a heavyweight boxer.â Selby, long weakened by years of illness and drug use, nevertheless lived to finally see his novel reach the screen. Directed by Uli Edel and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, the 1990 film was hailed as an â uncommonly evocative screen adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.â s teeming novelâ ¦ an epic of the dispossessedâ (New York Times).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Last Exit To Brooklyn.
• Publisher: The Grove Press, New York
• Publication Date: 1964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • First Edition