The Room

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145323540X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis The Room by : Hubert Selby

Download or read book The Room written by Hubert Selby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Requiem for a Dream

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453239693
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Requiem for a Dream written by Hubert Selby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of four people trapped by their addictions, the basis for the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film, by the author of Last Exit to Brooklyn. Sara Goldfarb is devastated by the death of her husband. She spends her days watching game shows and obsessing over appearing on television as a contestant—and her prescription diet pills only accelerate her mania. Her son, Harry, is living in the streets with his friend Tyrone and girlfriend Marion, where they spend their days selling drugs and dreaming of escape. When their heroin supply dries up, all three descend into an abyss of dependence and despair, their lives, like Sara’s, doomed by the destructive power of drugs. Tragic and captivating, Requiem for a Dream is one of Selby’s most powerful works, and an indelible portrait of the ravages of addiction. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate.

Waiting Period

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453297804
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Waiting Period by : Hubert Selby

Download or read book Waiting Period written by Hubert Selby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVA blood-chilling excursion into the twisted mind of a serial killer by the acclaimed author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby Jr. /divDIV When the oppressiveness of his memories becomes too hard to bear, a traumatized veteran decides to die. But he grows impatient during the legal waiting period to purchase the gun that will end his sad life. Then he grows angry, resentful of those he blames for his misery and those he feels simply don’t deserve to live. Suddenly a man with no future has a new purpose and a new role as avenging angel. As he spirals deeper into the darkest regions of his twisted imagination, his grisly obsession will give him a reason to live, propelling him relentlessly forward on his great mission to cleanse the dirty city of the unworthy./divDIV /divDIVA brilliant and terrifying nightmare from the author of the critically acclaimed classics Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr.’s Waiting Period views a grim modern world of pain and injustice through the eyes of a maniac whose mind is rapidly deteriorating. A dark and haunting work of raw, savage power, it provides further testament to the greatness of one of America’s most original contemporary literary artists./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate./div/div

The Demon

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453239685
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis The Demon by : Hubert Selby

Download or read book The Demon written by Hubert Selby and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV/divDIVDIVA womanizer’s struggle for self-control spirals into crime, madness, and murder/divDIV Harry White grew up in blue-collar Brooklyn, but the young man’s charm, smarts, and good looks have helped him earn a place as an uptown junior executive. White’s gifts have also made his love life easy, and he takes special pleasure in seducing married women. But when “Harry the Lover” is ready to grow up and leave his womanizing behind, White finds that suppressing his libido has dangerous consequences. His attempts at restraint awaken something sinister, causing White to seek excitement in a new form of violence and depravity./divDIV /divDIVShocking and enthralling, The Demon is an unflinching meditation on male vanity by one of the most acclaimed and original writers of the twentieth century./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Hubert Selby Jr. including rare photos from the author’s estate./div/div

Hubert Selby, Jr

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570031762
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

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Book Synopsis Hubert Selby, Jr by : James Richard Giles

Download or read book Hubert Selby, Jr written by James Richard Giles and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication in 1964 of his novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, which arguably achieved the status of a cult classic, Hubert Selby, Jr., has held a place as one of the foremost exponents of American underground literature. His work has yet to receive extensive critical attention, in part because of its deliberately shocking subject matter and its resistance to precise classification. In Understanding Hubert Selby, Jr., James R. Giles examines the writer's four novels and one collection of short stories to make the case that the full complexity of his fiction has not previously been understood. Giles contends that Selby's writings, which are usually labelled as either naturalistic or surrealistic, represent an innovative merger of both narrative modes.

The Willow Tree

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Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141195698
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Willow Tree written by Hubert Selby and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby is young and black. His life is irrevocably shattered when he and his Hispanic girlfriend Maria are savagely beaten by a vicious street gang. Bobby's bruised and battered body is discovered by Moishe, a concentration camp survivor, and an unlikely friendship begins.

Song of the Silent Snow

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Publisher : Penguin Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780241951248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Song of the Silent Snow written by Hubert Selby, Jr. and published by Penguin Books Limited. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author of Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He excels in this form, plunging the reader into the world of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madness.

Conquistador of the Useless

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Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN 13 : 1935955543
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Conquistador of the Useless by : Joshua Isard

Download or read book Conquistador of the Useless written by Joshua Isard and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Average suburban middle manager Nathan's life starts to unravel around him as his wife goes baby crazy, his friend wants to climb Everest, and he lends a copy of "Cat's Cradle" to a local teenage girl.

Conversations with the Capeman

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299197445
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)

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Book Synopsis Conversations with the Capeman by : Richard Jacoby

Download or read book Conversations with the Capeman written by Richard Jacoby and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, 1959, a playground confrontation leaves two white youths bludgeoned to death by a gang of Puerto Rican kids. Sixteen-year-old Salvador Agron, who wore a red-lined satin cape, was charged with the murders, though no traces of blood were found on his dagger. At seventeen, Agron was the youngest person ever to be sentenced to death in the electric chair. After nearly two years in the Death House at Sing Sing Prison, a group of prominent citizens, including Eleanor Roosevelt and the governor of Puerto Rico, convinced Governor Rockefeller to commute Agron's sentence to one of life imprisonment. In 1973 Richard Jacoby began a voluminous, twelve-year correspondence with Agron. His Conversations with the Capeman is guaranteed to challenge deeply held notions of crime, punishment, and redemption. Salvador Agron was released from prison in 1979 and died in the Bronx in 1986 at the age of forty-two. With a new preface

You Can't Win

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627932755
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Book Synopsis You Can't Win by : Jack Black

Download or read book You Can't Win written by Jack Black and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amazing autobiography of a criminal from a forgotten time in american history. Jack Black was a burgler, safe-cracker, highwayman and petty thief.

Rosset

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Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 1682190455
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis Rosset by : Barney Rosset

Download or read book Rosset written by Barney Rosset and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genet…Beckett…Burroughs…Miller…Ionesco, Ōe, Duras. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Hubert Selby Jr. and John Rechy. The legendary film I Am Curious (Yellow). The books that assaulted the fort of propriety that was the United States in the 1950s and ’60s, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Tropic of Cancer. The Evergreen Review. Victorian “erotica.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X. A bombing, a sit-in, and a near-fistfight with Norman Mailer. The common thread between these disparate elements, a number of which reshaped modern culture, was Barney Rosset. Rosset was the antidote to the trope of the “gentleman publisher” personified by other pioneering figures of the industry such as Alfred A. Knopf, Bennett Cerf and James Laughlin. If Barney saw a crowd heading one way—he looked the other. If he knew something was forbidden, he regarded it as a plus. Unsurprisingly, financial ruin, along with the highs and lows of critical reception, marked his career. But his unswerving dedication to publishing what he wanted made him one of the most influential publishers ever. Rosset began work on his autobiography a decade before his death in 2012, and several publishers and a number of editors worked with him on the project. Now, at last, in his own words, we have a portrait of the man who reshaped how we think about language, literature—and sex. Here are the stories behind the filming of Norman Mailer’s Maidstone and Samuel Beckett’s Film; the battles with the US government over Tropic of Cancer and much else; the search for Che’s diaries; his romance with the expressionist painter Joan Mitchell, and more. At times appalling, more often inspiring, never boring or conventional: this is Barney Rosset, uncensored.

Now Watch Him Die

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now Watch Him Die written by Henry Rollins and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drunken Angel

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1936740478
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)

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Book Synopsis Drunken Angel by : Alan Kaufman

Download or read book Drunken Angel written by Alan Kaufman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Kaufman has been compared to Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller, Hubert Selby Jr., even Ernest Hemmingway—his life reads so much like a great movie that the world of cinema has just optioned his first memoir, Jew Boy, for a feature film. Drunken Angel, his new autobiographical work, drops like a sledgehammer. It is the most gripping, chilling and inspiring account ever written of a life-long battle with alcoholism and the struggle to write. Graphic in its grit, an education in pain, Drunken Angel is being hailed as "the Naked Lunch of memoirs." The book chronicles Kaufman’s headlong plunge into the piratical life of a literary drunk, and takes us shamelessly through noirish alleyways of S&M sensuality, forbidden pleasures and pitfalls of adultery, the thrilling horrors of war, plus raging poetry nights, mental illness, homelessness, literary struggle and his strange, magnificent rise into a sobriety of personal triumph as crazily improbable as the famous and notorious figures he meets along the way. Drunken Angel contains revealing portraits of such literary figures as Allen Ginsberg, Kathy Acker, Barney Rosset, Anthony Burgess, Elie Wiesel, Ron Kolm, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jim Feast, Bernard Malamud, Hubert Selby Jr., Bob Holman, Sapphire, not to speak of the gutter dreamers, Nuyorican Poets, Unbearables, Babarians, Slammers, Black foot Indians, commandos, criminals, junkies, renegade cocktail waitresses, hoboes, painters, and a host of others who each in some way, big or small, play their part in peopling the wildly exilerating drama of Kaufman’s passionate and exotic life. Whether the addiction be booze, women, violence, writing or fame, Kaufman honors us with an explicit honesty that only a writer of enormous power and artistic greatness can attain, and his life, as Drunken Angel poignantly shows, is a profoundly meaningful quest for truth and spiritual values.

As Meat Loves Salt

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007394446
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis As Meat Loves Salt by : Maria McCann

Download or read book As Meat Loves Salt written by Maria McCann and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. ‘An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.’ Daily Telegraph

Sarah

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062641263
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (626 download)

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Book Synopsis Sarah by : JT LeRoy

Download or read book Sarah written by JT LeRoy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller Featuring a foreword by Billy Corgan “JT LeRoy’s masterful imagination, command of story, and easy sense of the mythological are a rare combination that demands attention.” — Toronto Star Sarah never admits that she’s his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a “lot lizard”: a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever. With his own leather mini-skirt and a makeup bag that closes with Velcro, the young “Cherry Vanilla” embarks on a journey through the Appalachian wilds, dining on transcendental cuisine, supplicating to the mystical Jackalope, encountering the most terrifying of pimps, walking on water, being venerated as an innocent girl saint—and then being denounced as the devil. By turns exhilarating and shocking, magical and realistic, Sarah brings urgency, wit, and imagination to an unknown and unforgettable world.

Mama Black Widow

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1936399199
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (363 download)

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Book Synopsis Mama Black Widow by : Iceberg Slim

Download or read book Mama Black Widow written by Iceberg Slim and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mama Black Widow" is the nickname of Otis Tilson, a comely and tragic black queen adrift with his brothers and sisters in the dark ghetto world of pimpdom and violent crime. His story is told in the gut-level language of the homosexual underworld--an unforgettable testament of life lived on the margins of a racist and predatory urban hell.

Beijing Comrades

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ISBN 13 : 9781558619074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Beijing Comrades written by Beitong and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beijing Comrades is the story of a torrid love affair set against the socio-political unrest of late-eighties China. Due to its depiction of gay sexuality and its critique of the totalitarian government, it was originally published anonymously on an underground gay website within mainland China. This riveting and heart-breaking novel, circulated throughout China in 1998, quickly developed a cult following and remains a central work of queer literature from the People's Republic. This is the first English-language translation.