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"First written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, Hogg is one of America's most famous " unpublishable" novels. It recounts three horrifically violent days in 1969 in the life of truck driver and rapist-for-hire, Franklin Hargus.
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Bleak, grave, overwhelming and relentless.
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Samuel R. Delany
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 219
- Publisher
- Fc2/Black Ice Books, Fiction Collective 2, Brand: Fc2/Black Ice Books
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781472105943
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