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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Category: Fiction | Series: HS
Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it 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 trouble ...Show more
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Hubert Selby Jr, Hubert Selby Jr.
Category: No Category | Series: HS
Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers and dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have and st ...Show more
Room by Hubert Selby
Category: No Category | Series: HS
The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture. This is an examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other.
The Demon by Hubert Selby
Category: No Category | Series: HS
Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children.
The Willow Tree by Hubert Selby
Category: No Category | Series: HS
Bobby - young, black and happily in love with Hispanic girlfriend Maria - lives in a cramped Bronx apartment with his mother, his younger siblings and walls full of rats. But when Bobby and Maria are brutally attacked by a Hispanic gang, leaving the couple severely injured, everything changes. Maria may ...Show more
Waiting Period by Hubert Selby
Category: No Category | Series: HS
Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, the suicidal narrator of "Waiting Period" attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer malfunction causes a delay with the gun license: a life-saving event that sees the man questioning why he should die when there are so many others he ...Show more
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