Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr

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

'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

Hubert Selby Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York. After leaving school he went to sea until illness forced him to leave the Merchant Marines. He began publishing stories in the 1950s, but it was the appearance of LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN in the mid-sixties that brought him widespread recognition. On British publication the book was prosecuted for obscenity, but won its protracted court case on appeal. Hubert Selby's other works are THE ROOM (1971), THE DEMON (1973), REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (1978) and SONG OF THE SILENT SNOW (1986). He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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ISBN 13	9780747549925
ISBN 10	0747549923
Title	Last Exit to Brooklyn
Author	Hubert Selby Jr
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2000-10-02
Number of pages	320
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