Hubert Selby Jr. (1928–2004)
Auteur van Uit naar Brooklyn
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Werken van Hubert Selby Jr.
The Room by Jr Hubert Selby (2011-08-01) 1 exemplaar
San Martino (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Il rumore (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Sto buona (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Pubertà (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Ciao campione (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Che pensi? (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Portafortuna (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Liebesnacht (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Il cappotto (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
Hubert Selby Jr. Live in Europe 1989 1 exemplaar
Il musicista (in Canto della neve silenziosa) 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Selby, Hubert, Jr.
- Geboortedatum
- 1928-07-23
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2004-04-26
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Stuyvesant High School
- Beroepen
- auteur
- Organisaties
- United States Merchant Marine
University of Southern California
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Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr. (Bowie's Top 100 for July) in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (september 2016)
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Selby introduces us to Harry, Tyrone (Harry's best friend), Marion (Harry's girlfriend), and Sara (Harry's mother). The first three are heroin addicts determined to make it rich dealing so they can live the rest of their lives in more normal pursuits, like travel and small business ownership. Sara is a stereotypical overweight Jewish mother who has lost her husband. She receives some kind of telemarketing call that makes her believe she will be on a television show. In an effort to lose weight, she begins taking "diet pills" (which turn out to be amphetamines). Let's just say she fares as poorly as the heroin addicts.
I love a good dark book, but this one oddly starts off pretty dull, in part because the heroin addict sections are written in a style meant to evoke a brain on drugs. It takes a bit of time to get used to the style, and while I admire the effort, it's really not very interesting to read what is essentially narrated garbled thoughts for pages on end.
The latter half is much better in the sense of it being like a car accident - - you can't look away even though it is just horrific. Honestly, this book should be used in high schools with freshmen . . .there's basically no way anyone would ever do drugs of any kind after reading it. That's really the best aspect; Selby does an amazing job of communicating the lack of control and agency left to these human beings once the addiction fully seizes them.
The intro to the book indicates this book is about the dangers of the American dream . . .oddly, I didn't get that message from it even though I was actively looking.
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