false 50275 25 The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America", [book:Last Exit to Brooklyn] is a classic 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. 543352 1957 Last Exit to Brooklyn total:1725|5:578|4:657|3:361|2:88|1:41| 1725 6818 2499 214 5 7 false false Fri Apr 04 18:03:24 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 23 22:35:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 16:19:42 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 05:46:49 -0700 2009 Grabbed this from my stash Saturday evening and started blazing through it, rapt! Could not put it down. Finished Sunday...

Uncompromising portrait of petty slothfulness and violence in grim Brooklyn in the 1950s. The 1989 Jennifer Jason Leigh film was fine an...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 04 00:59:27 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 16:53:48 -0700 2008
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the main problem i had with this book is selby made his point on page 3 and everything afterward is horrific redundancy...
i recently wrote that betty smith's version of brooklyn gave off an awful stink, and i must now conclude that i didn't know what the hell ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 15:27:44 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 15:14:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 04:48:34 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 04:05:49 -0700 2009
Written with a flowing, colloquial style, the narrative draws you into a far from beautiful world, with few empathetic characters and a brutalness that can give you pause for thought.

My edition had a wonderful preface...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 03 05:33:01 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 16 08:17:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 17 13:28:57 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 13:58:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 13 07:45:45 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 07:49:24 -0700 2009 Union leaders,Hookers,Transvestites and Drugs all spell out the situations within the book and the...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Dec 02 05:22:23 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 05:27:40 -0800 2008
Multiple stories of different characters in 1950's Brooklyn, that intersect and intertwine.

The stream of consciousn...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 09:45:24 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 09:36:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 11:07:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 15:59:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 19:30:52 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 03:15:45 -0700 2009 Hubert Selby Jr. says "... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me". This sentiment is evident in every character's tale told in Last Exit To Brooklyn. In short it's a fascinating account of the diverse community o...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Nov 09 14:44:03 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 14:59:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=50275