Last Exit to Brooklyn

Hubert Selby Jr. 1964

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
Brooklyn poverty addiction violence

Our Take

Six interlocking stories in Brooklyn's most desperate neighborhoods — violence, addiction, sex work, self-destruction. Selby was tried for obscenity in the UK and won. The material earns that protection: this is not exploitation but witness, written by someone who lived inside the landscape.

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