Last Exit to Brooklyn
(Sprache: Englisch)
A novel that tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It includes such creations as: Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; and Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation.
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A novel that tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It includes such creations as: Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; and Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation.
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Those who inhabit Last Exit to Brooklyn are unforgettable: Harry, the strike leader, who during his weeks of power discovers something of his true nature; Tralala, who rejects the only love she is offered and sinks swiftly to the lowest level of prostitution; Georgette, the 'hip queer' with pathetic aspirations to culture; Abraham, the 'cool ass' black stud, with his girls, his 'bigass' Cadillac, and his undernourished family; the debris of American civilisation, for whom the author ultimately makes us feel a profound compassion. Last Exit to Brooklyn was found obscene at the Old Bailey in November 1967, a decision which was reversed by a historic Appeal Court judgement in July 1968. Now this 'honest and terrible book', as Anthony Burgess describes it in his Introduction to this new edition, can take its rightful place as one of the major books of our time.
Autoren-Porträt von Hubert Selby
Hubert Selby Jr.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Hubert Selby
- 2011, 272 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Books UK
- ISBN-10: 0141195657
- ISBN-13: 9780141195650
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Last Exit to Brooklyn “
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 Book Review An urgent tickertape from hell Spectator Selby deploys street slang, common speech, argot and scatology to create a high poetic art...it seems to derive from the greatest American poetry--Whitman, Pound, Williams, and Olson The Nation
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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 Book Review
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