Last Exit to Brooklyn
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 twenty-five years ago. - Amazon
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I read that one in New York in the same stretch as American Psycho. I thought that "The Jungle" was great and horrific but "Last Exit to Brooklyn" is much tougher experience.
The protagonists of this book will stay with you much longer than the environment in which they live contrary to the Sinclair Book where the whole meat packing industry is what's left at the end.
I also read "Requiem for a dream" from Selby and it's written with the same brilliance.
A 5 stars book according to me.
It took me too long to get through this book. I think I'll have to pick it up again to appreciate it more.