1968 Hubert Selby Jr. 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' Post Trial Edition

Lovely mid 60s hardback copy of Hubert Selby Jr.'s infamous everyman novel set in 1950s New York, 'Last Exit to Brooklyn', first published in 1964

Written in a coarse and casual language covering taboo subjects such as street violence, drug addiction, domestic abuse, and gang rape, the book takes an uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 50s. Selby wrote the prose naturally, as if it were a story told in a bar rather than a novel. At time of release, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK, and banned in Italy...

Publisher: Calder and Boyars

Publication Date: 1968

Edition: 2nd

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: VG