Herbert Selby Jr.

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Novel depicting urban decay, violence, and moral degradation in postwar Brooklyn

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Herbert Selby Jr.

Hubert Selby Jr. wrote brutal, compassionate fiction about the urban underclass of Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Last Exit to Brooklyn was prosecuted for obscenity in Britain and remains one of the most uncompromising portraits of poverty in American literature.

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