Hogg
By: by Samuel R. Delany.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: FC2
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Normal [Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Rapists -- Fiction; Sex crimes -- Fiction; Pedophilia -- Fiction; Victims of violent crimes -- Fiction; Children -- Crimes against -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "First written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, Hogg is one of America's most famous " unpublishable" novels. It recounts three horrifically violent days in 1969 in the life of truck driver and rapist-for-hire, Franklin Hargus. Narrated by his young accomplice, the novel portrays a descent into unimaginable depravity. What transforms this nightmare into literature is Delany's refusal, faced with our moral anxieties, to mutilate his appalling creation. Hogg's monsters wear our faces, possessing the human complexities of intense loyalty perverse admiration, and an integrity so pure that pity becomes betrayal."--BOOK JACKET.