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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.
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.
When Grove Press published Last Exit to Brooklyn in 1964, the firm encountered relatively few censorship efforts, despite the book’s violence, graphic sexual activities, and vulgar language.
Two of his novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and Requiem for a Dream (1978), explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of which he appeared in. His first novel was prosecuted for obscenity in the United Kingdom and banned in Italy, prompting defences from many leading authors such as Anthony Burgess. He influenced ...
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Jul 20, 2016 · In some ways the story of the banning of Hubert Selby Jr.’s Last Exit To Brooklyn turns out to be, for me at least, more entertaining than the book itself. Originally published in the UK in 1966 after its successful release in the States, Last Exit was critically pretty well received and had gone to a second print run within three months.
