Book Review: Last Exit to Brooklyn
February 23, 2007Posted by mmarvs in : Books, General
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Last Exit to Brooklyn is a classic postwar American novel. It was written by Hubert Selby’s, Jr. who was born in Brooklyn in 1928. Last Exit to Brooklyn was his first writing and it was originally published in 1964.
Selby’s first work is a searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed which is as fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as it was when first published more than forty years ago.
Last Exit to Brooklyn ties together six short stories, examining low-life misfits who are affected by the ongoing strike at the local metals factory. It is an extraordinary achievement, a vision of hell so stern it cannot be laughed at or brushed aside. It depicts the beauty created out of the tortured darkness of our soul. It is one of the really great Works of fiction about the underground laberynth of the American cities.
Uli Edel’s film version of the book, made in 1989 and released in 1990, did not stick around for long and has been fairly difficult to see ever since.
Mr. Selby has since written four other novels, The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, The Willow Tree and a collection of short stories, Song of the Silent Snow. He lives in
Los Angeles.
Heliodoro Gutiérrez
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