Last Exit to Brooklyn [Paperback]

'A masterpiece' -- Al Alvarez

'An urgent tickertape from hell' -- Spectator

'Last Exit to Brooklyn is a tour de force of muscular, rhythmic prose' -- New Statesman

'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists...so to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America' -- New York Times --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

A reissue of a controversial novel first published in 1964 which has been republished to coincide with a new film. Written by a Brooklyn-born, ex-marine and drug addict, it describes the world of prostitutes, junkies and drag queens that he knew well. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America," Last Exit to Brooklyn is a classic of postwar American writing. Selby's searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is as fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as it was when it was first published more than thirty-five years ago.

"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 Brooklyn should 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, black, jagged glass."--Saturday Review

"Scorching, unrelenting, pulsing."--Newsweek

Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in Brooklyn in 1928. Last Exit to Brooklyn, his first novel, was originally published in 1964. He has since written five other novels, The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, and The Willow Tree, and a collection of short stories, Song of the Silent Snow. Mr. Selby lives in Los Angeles. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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-1960s 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), Song of the Silent Snow (1986) and 'The Willow Tree' (1998). He lives in Los Angeles, California. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.