Hubert Selby Jr.
Hubert Selby Jr. wrote the most brutal and compassionate prose about American poverty and addiction. Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream are unflinching portraits of urban desperation.
Works
- Last Exit to BrooklynBrutal novel depicting urban working-class life, violence, and sexual desperation
- Requiem for a DreamNovel of interconnected lives spiraling into addiction, hopelessness, and destruction
- The RoomNovel following a man confined to a room experiencing psychological descent
- The DemonNovel depicting a man's psychological unraveling and descent into madness
- Song of the Silent SnowCollection of stories portraying urban despair, addiction, and human degradation