- Fiction, Inner cities, Hispanic American teenagers, Jews
Bobby is young and black. He shares a cramped apartment in the south Bronx with his mother, his younger siblings and the ceaselessly scratching rats that infest the walls behind his bed.
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Grave, earnest, overwhelming and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Marion Boyars Publishers, Marion Boyars
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747542445
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“Bobby lay in bed listening to the rats scratching and squealing in the wall a few inches behind his head, the rats sounding as if they were ready to gnaw through his skull and chew on his eyeballs from the inside.”
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