Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr - Despite high praise on the book's release, due to its frank portrayals of taboo subjects such as drug use, street violence, gang rape, homophobia, prostitution & domestic violence it became the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK and was banned in Italy - Upgoat

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr - Despite high praise on the book's release, due to its frank portrayals of taboo subjects such as drug use, street violence, gang rape, homophobia, prostitution & domestic violence it became the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK and was banned in Italy
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Gene Pitney - Last Exit to Brooklyn.

If anyone ever asks me what has been my fav book of all time, I always say Hubert Selby Jr's Last Exit to Brooklyn.

It should have been banned in the US also. I read Selby's book and thought it was obscene, degenerate, disgusting, and absolutely without value.