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Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in spare, stripped-down prose. [1] Critics and fellow writers praised the book on its release.
- Hubert Selby
- 1964
When Calder and Boyars published Last Exit to Brooklyn in the UK, on January 24, 1966, it had already been out for well over a year in the US. Some British critics took the opportunity to grapple with this masterpiece of observation and idiom, but many others let it pass them by.
Jul 22, 2024 · But it’s worth bearing in mind that although Last Exit To Brookyln was published in America in 1964, it wasn’t published in the UK until January 1966, where its controversial contents saw it become both a best seller and the subject of a much-publicised obscenity trial.
Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned by British courts in 1967, a decision that was reversed the following year with the help of a number of writers and critics including Anthony Burgess and Frank Kermode.
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Aug 5, 2017 · The aftermath of Last Exit to Brooklyn’s release was an exercise in controversy. It was banned in the United Kingdom until writers such as Anthony Burgess defended it, while back in the United States the book was not a critical darling, with many critics attacking its style and subject matter.
Oct 10, 2014 · Fifty years ago this fall, Grove Press published Last Exit to Brooklyn, a collection of revolting interweaving stories — which Hubert Selby Jr. had begun publishing in literary magazines as early as 1957 — that became a controversial instant classic of postwar urban degeneracy, populated by drunks, drug addicts, violently repressed ...
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Sep 25, 2022 · ‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ has been banned in many countries. When the book was published, it was an international hit. Selby’s topics and writing style felt wholly new at the time and readers clamored for copies.
