Last Exit to Brooklyn

Name: Last Exit to Brooklyn
Author: Hubert Selby Jr.

by Hubert Selby Jr.

Hubert Selby's "Last Exit to Brooklyn," read when I was 17. "Last Exit to Brooklyn" showed me how to marry bebop lyricism to the stolid urban realism that I loved so much. These two books, for better or worse, gave me my voice.

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Richard Price

"Hubert Selby's "Last Exit to Brooklyn," read when I was 17. "Last Exit to Brooklyn" showed me how to marry bebop lyricism to the stolid urban realism that I loved so much. These two books, for better or worse, gave me my voice."

By the Book: Richard Price · nytimes.com