Last Exit to Brooklyn, by American Author Hubert Selby Jr. 1964 - Provides an uncompromising glimpse of the realities of post WW2 America in the context of trade union corruption, pedophilia, homosexuality & violence, the book was banned by British courts for obscenity in 1967
(www.goodreads.com)https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50275.Last_Exit_to_BrooklynWhenever anyone asks me what the best book I have ever read is, I always say LEtB.IMDB - Last Exit to Brooklyn.
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Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, Last Exit to Brooklyn tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature.
Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations.
Hubert Selby, Jr. (1928-2004) was born in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 15 yrs he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease and decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic.
In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK .. "Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years," Allen Ginsberg. "An urgent tickertape from hell," Spectator.
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