Title: Last Exit to Brooklyn
First published: January 13, 1994
Description: Last Exit to Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes. An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected and volatile youth who has never been on the right side of the law; Tralala, who can find no escape from her loveless existence; Harry, a power-hungry strike leader with a fatal secret. Living on the edge, always walking on the wild side, their alienation and aggression mask a desperate, deep human need for affection and kinship.

Banned in Britain on first publication in 1964, Last Exit to Brooklyn brought its ex-marine, drug-addict author instant notoriety. Its truthfulness stunned a generation and continues to shock to this day.
Subjects: Fiction, psychological, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, urban, City and town life, Fiction, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Social isolation, American Science fiction, Fiction, city life, LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall
Places: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), New York, New York (State)