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Last Exit to Brooklyn remains undiminished in its awesome power and magnitude as the novel that first showed us the fierce, primal rage seething in Americas cities. Selby brings out the dope addicts, hoodlums, prostitutes, workers, and thieves brawling in the back alleys of Brooklyn. This explosive best-seller has come to be regarded as a classic of modern American writing.
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"An extraordinary achievement...a vision of hell so stern it cannot be chuckled or raged aside." The New York Times Book Review
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"As dramatic and immediate as the click of a switchblade knife." Los Angeles Times
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"Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years." Allen Ginsberg
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"Drops like a sledgehammer. Emotionally beaten, one leaves it a different personslightly changed, educated by pain, as Goethe said." The Nation
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"The raw strength and concentrated power of Last Exit to Brooklyn make it one of the really great works of fiction about the underground labyrinth of our cities." Harry T. Moore
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"Scorching, unrelenting, pulsing." Newsweek