Last Exit To Brooklyn Book. Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. on Apple Books Set in the Brooklyn borough of New York City in the 1950s, the novel portrays the interconnected lives of the residents.The loosely connected stories involve crime, violence, and poverty, as well as drug-use, sex work, and sexual assault The book is disturbing in its violence yet Selby's eyes are like an Argus, peering into the alleys of life in The Projects and in the Brooklyn docks - bringing to light the tragic lives of the queers and the fairies , the alcoholics, the perverts and the working classes and the dysfunctional families of the time.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (Evergreen Book) Paperback - January 13, 1994 Last Exit to Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. on Apple Books
The book is disturbing in its violence yet Selby's eyes are like an Argus, peering into the alleys of life in The Projects and in the Brooklyn docks - bringing to light the tragic lives of the queers and the fairies , the alcoholics, the perverts and the working classes and the dysfunctional families of the time. a vision of hell so stern it cannot be chuckled or raged aside."— The New York Times Book Review A classic of postwar American literature, Last Exit to Brooklyn created shock waves upon its release in 1964 with its raw, vibrant language and startling revelations of New York City's underbelly Last Exit to Brooklyn (Evergreen Book) Paperback - January 13, 1994
Last Exit to Brooklyn Hubert Jr Selby 1st Edition. Publication date 1968 Publisher calder and boyars limited Collection internetarchivebooks. An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected and volatile youth who has never been on the right side of the law; Tralala, who can find no escape.
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