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Resultaten voor 'hubert selby jr'
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Requiem for a Dream
Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers and dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have and struggling with her own addictions.
€ 15,50 -
Iblis
Kahramanimizin adi Harry, Harry White. Arkadaslari ona sik Harry derdi. Cünkü o kadinlari ayartip yataga atma konusunda ustaydi. Ama öyle rastgele birini degil. Evli kadinlari Baslarda basit bir oyundu bu onun icin, heyecanini ve haz duygusunu artiran. Sonra bakti ki kendisini mahvedecek, istemeyerek de olsa vazgecti bu oyundan. Hirsla isine sarildi. Yükselmek, zengin olmak, tüm övgüleri toplamak istiyordu. Istediklerine kavustu da. Üstelik bu arada, arama-digi halde aski buldu ve iki cocugu oldu. Artik Harry White basari timsali bir adamdi. Sevdigi, güzel bir ailesi, Westchesterda sahane bir evi vardi. Ama onun tek istedigi ölmekti. Icindeki iblisten kurtulmak. Bu öyle bir iblisti ki tüm bedeni ve ruhuyla onu kendi oyunlarina alet ediyor, tükenmisligin cukuruna cekiyordu. Cukurun ici ise ayyas fahiseler, fareler, calinti esyalar ve ceset parcalariyla doluydu. Harry ise umutsuzca bagiriyordu. Ama hic ses cikmiyordu Brooklyne Son Cikis ve Bir Düs Icin Agit gibi kült romanlarin yazari Hubert Selby Jr. bu eserinde, kazananlarin vahsi dünyasinda yolunu kaybeden bir adamin hikayesini anlatiyor.
€ 16,99 -
Song of the Silent Snow
Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in Brooklyn in 1928. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In 1964 he completed his first book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, which has since become a cult classic. In 1966, it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the UK. His other books include The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream, Song of the Silent Snow, The Willow Tree and Waiting Period. In 2000, Requiem for a Dream starred Jared Leto and Ellen Burstyn and was directed by Darren Aronofsky. Hubert Selby Jr died in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California in April 2004.
€ 18,60 -
The Willow Tree
Bobby - young black and happily in love with Hispanic girlfriend Maria - lives in a cramped Bronx apartment with his mother his younger siblings and walls full of rats. But when Bobby and Maria are brutally attacked by a Hispanic gang leaving the couple severely injured everything changes. Maria may be lost but under the unusual care of the reclusive doctor he knows only as Moishe Bobby might just have stumbled into a hopeful future of which he could never have previously dreamed. The Willow Tree is a searing trip of despair and hope through the lives of America's dispossessed inner-city residents.
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Waiting Period
Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, the suicidal narrator of Waiting Period attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer malfunction causes a delay with the gun license: a life-saving event that sees the man questioning why he should die when there are so many others he believes should go before him. Planning the perfect murder, he chooses a victim - a bureaucrat responsible for denying him his benefits - and discovers to his amazement that his plan works perfectly. But now this man has found his purpose in life, how far will he go with his mission? In his final novel, Hubert Selby Jr. offers a shocking and fascinating examination of morality, murder and one man's personal war.
€ 14,00 -
The Demon
Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. But with every achievement the desire to destroy what is his grows stronger. A demon within drives him to sexual excess, petty crime and eventually murder.The Demon explores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping twentieth-century tragedy.
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The Room
'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.'s second novel. What follows is a startling series of recollections and fantasies that illuminate the workings of a prisoner's unhinged mind. He yearns for his violent childhood, rages against obscure authorities, and imagines enacting horrible revenge on those who imprisoned him. The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture.Disorienting, nightmarish and structurally inventive, The Room is a shocking examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other.
€ 13,00