First edition | |
Author | Hubert Selby Jr. |
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Cover artist | Roy Kuhlman |
Language | English |
Genre | Transgressive fiction |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Publication date | 1964 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 320 pp |
OCLC | 18568386 |
Followed by | The 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.