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Last Exit to Brooklyn (Evergreen Book) (Paperback)

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Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in America's cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling in the back alleys of Brooklyn. This explosive best-seller has come to be regarded as a classic of modern American writing.

Praise For…


"An extraordinary achievement . . . a vision of hell so stern it cannot be chuckled or raged aside.”The New York Times Book Review

As dramatic and immediate as the click of a switchblade knife.”Los Angeles Times

The raw strength and concentrated power of Last Exit to Brooklyn make it one of the really great works of fiction about the underground labyrinth of our cities.”Harry T. Moore

Last Exit to Brooklynshould explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years.”Allen Ginsberg

Drops like a sledgehammer. Emotionally beaten, one leaves it a different personslightly changed, educated by pain, as Goethe said.”The Nation

Selby has an unerring instinct for honing our collapse into novels as glittering and as cutting as pure, block, jagged glass.”Saturday Review

Scorching, unrelenting, pulsing.”Newsweek

The marriage of brutal street life and gorgeous bebop prose.” Richard Price, from his My Five Most Essential Books,” published in Newsweek (April 13, 2009)


Product Details
ISBN: 9780802131379
ISBN-10: 0802131379
Publisher: Grove Press
Publication Date: January 13th, 1994
Pages: 320
Language: English
Series: Evergreen Book