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 tw
Last Exit to Brooklyn
โ Scribed by Selby, Hubert
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-ca
- Weight
- 294 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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