Last Exit to Brooklyn
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This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Last Exit to Brooklyn (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Last Exit on Brooklyn.
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose.[1]
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Author | Hubert Selby Jr. |
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Cover artist | Roy Kuhlman |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Transgressive fiction |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Publication date | 1964 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 320 pp |
OCLC | 18568386 |
Followed by | The Room |
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Critics and fellow writers praised the book on its release. Due to its frank portrayals of taboo subjects, such as drug use, street violence, gang rape, homophobia, prostitution and domestic violence it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the United Kingdom and was banned in Italy.