Last Exit to Brooklyn

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
First edition
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
Cover artistRoy Kuhlman
LanguageEnglish
GenreTransgressive fiction
PublisherGrove Press
Publication date
1964
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages320 pp
OCLC18568386
Followed byThe Room 

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 spare, stripped-down prose.[1]

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.

  1. ^ DePalma, Anthony. "Hubert Selby Jr. Dies at 75; Wrote 'Last Exit to Brooklyn'", The New York Times, April 27, 2004.