Hubert Selby

Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers and dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have and struggling with her own addictions - food and diet pills. But these four will pay a terrible price for the pleasures they believe they are entitled to. A passionate, heart-breaking tale of the crushing weight of hope and expectation, Requiem for a Dream is a dark modern-day fable of New York. 'Selby brings a scorching light to a limited area of human existence, which most people know of but do not know.' Newsweek 'One of the great American novelists, and one who has helped us to understand the nature of addiction and the human condition better, perhaps, than any other.' Guardian

Requiem for a Dream

With a new Introduction by Irvine Welsh 'Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years' Allen Ginsberg Few novels have caused as much controversy as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece. Described by various reviewers as hellish and obscene, it tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. Yet there are moments of exquisite tenderness in these troubled lives. Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation; and Harry, the strike leader who hides his true desires behind a boorish masculinity, are unforgettable creations. Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers including Anthony Burgess. 'An urgent tickertape from hell' Spectator

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Waiting Period

Waiting Period may not offer any answers to the meaning of life, but it certainly poses a lot of interesting new questions."--BOOK JACKET.

Die 6 Stücke dieses äRomansä aus dem düsteren, inhumanen, brutalen Milieu der Unterwelt und der Slums von Brooklyn wirken in ihrer Authenzität beklemmend.

Letzte Ausfahrt Brooklyn

Set in the Bronx, this novel tells the story of Bobby, a young black man, and his Hispanic friend, Maria. Their lives together are irrevocably shattered when a vicious Hispanic street gang attack leaves Bobby savagely beaten and Maria lying in a hospital bed with a badly burned face.

A Novel

The Willow Tree

Pocos libros suscitaron opiniones tan extremas como éste cuando se publicó por primera vez, en 1964, desde la más rendida admiración (se le llamó «un Viaje al fin de la noche americana, despojado de grasa») hasta el furor ciego Éste es un libro consagrado

Última salida para Brooklyn

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. But with every achievement the desire to destroy what is his grows stronger. A demon within drives him to sexual excess, petty crime and eventually murder. The Demon explores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping twentieth-century tragedy. 'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists.' The New York Times 'A major author of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph Heller.' Los Angeles Times

The Demon

In New York, a black youth who is beaten by a gang learns forgiveness from a Holocaust survivor. The Jew cares for his wounds, counsels him to forget the incident and when an opportunity for revenge comes, the youth turns it down.

Réquiem por un sueño

“A terrifying journey into the darkest corners of the psyche” by the author of Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn (The Guardian). A small-time criminal sits alone in his cell, his mind reeling with sadistic thoughts of retribution against the police and, eventually, all those he believes have failed him throughout his life. A deeply disturbing exploration of a character the Guardian described as “a genuinely frightening American Psycho,” Hubert Selby Jr.’s second novel is made all the more chilling by the narrator’s brief flashes of humanity. The Room is a tale so terrifying the author himself couldn’t read it for decades after writing it. Called “brutal” by the New York Times when it was first published, it is a dark masterpiece about a man who may be temporarily trapped in jail, but whose true prison is his own anger, as he is enslaved by out-of-control passions and sickening fantasies of revenge. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate.

The Room

Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie mottoes, but panics when these mottoes turn against him; a date goes so perfectly a man talks himself out of ever seeing the woman again; a commuter finds himself obsessed with a plain young woman on his train, at the expense of his marriage. In this collection of short stories, Hubert Selby Jr. plunges the reader into the violent, passionate worlds of his protagonists and captures perfectly the delicate balance between joy and despair.

Song of the Silent Snow

Poslední odbočka na Brooklyn

En attendant le super plan came qui les rendra riches, Harry, sa petite amie Marion et Tyron se défoncent. Accro à la télévision et aux amphétamines coupe-faim, Sara, la mère d'Harry, fantasme de parader dans son émission fétiche. Aux prises avec ses illusions, lentement chacun s'enfonce dans un cauchemar où l'ivresse tutoie la solitude. Un trip infernal, avant la chute... Paru en 1978 et porté à l'écran par Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream), ce roman sous acide conte d'une écriture vertigineuse la tragédie du rêve américain. Noir, brutal, culte. « Selby se place au premier rang des romanciers américains. [...] Comprendre ses oeuvres, c'est comprendre la détresse de l'Amérique. » New York Times Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Daniel Mauroc

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