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Hubert Selby Jr

 
Works: Works by Hubert Selby Jr
 
(b. 1928)

1964Last Exit to Brooklyn. The Brooklyn writer's first novel provides a graphic treatment of squalid urban street life. The subject of an obscenity trial in Britain and banned in Italy for its shocking scenes of rape and homosexual acts, it becomes a notorious bestseller in the United States. Subsequent novels would be The Room (1971), The Demon (1976), Requiem for a Dream (1978), and The Willow Tree (1998).
1971The Room. Selby's violent stream-of-consciousness narrative about an incarcerated criminal is described by one reviewer as "an exquisite, meticulous execution of the curious piteous lust between oppressor and oppressed." Two less successful novels, The Demon (1976) and Requiem for a Dream (1978), would follow.

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Works. The Chronology of American Literature, edited by Daniel S. Burt. Copyright © 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more

 

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