โ Scribed by Selby Jr., Hubert
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America," Last Exit to Brooklyn is a clasic of postwar American writing. Selby's searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is a fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as when it was first published twenty-five years ago.
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