num_pages: 290
description: The first novel to articulate the rage and pain of life in "the other America", Last Exit to Brooklyn is a classic of postwar American writing. Selby's searing portrait of the powerless, the homeless, the dispossessed, is a fiercely and frighteningly apposite today as when it was first published, in 1964.This infamous book is a fractured tale of people living in the back end of New York City, poor and streetwise, misguided and desperate. We follow a prostitute, a union rep, and several others as their lives are systematically broken down and destroyed. Harsh, explicit, and an audacious piece of writing. Be warned: not for the faint hearted.
language: English
title: Last Exit to Brooklyn
titlecomplete: Last Exit to Brooklyn
characters: Harry Black, Big Joe, Tralala
genres: Fiction, American, Dark, Thriller, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, New York, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 26585
places: Brooklyn, New York City, New York
publisher: Marion Boyers