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Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time criminal surrenders himself to sadistic fantasies of hatred and revenge. Selby's second novel is a claustrophobic descent into the tormented soul of a man trapped in a loveless society.
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Grave, intimate, bleak and earnest.
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- intimateepic
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, Marion Boyars, Calder and Boyars
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780141195674
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