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The Interplay Between Despair and Hope in the Work of Hubert Selby Jr. by Lester George Hekking 9783845421537
RRP: $85.41Booksplease Price: $83.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783845421537Author Lester George HekkingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint LAP Lambert Academic... -
Low Rent: A Decade of Prose and Photographs from The Portable Lower East Side by Kurt Hollander 9780802134080
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.47Included in the anthology are writings by Ameena Meer, David Wojnarowicz, Hubert Selby Jr., Herbert Huncke, and Richard Hell, as well as photographs by Annie Sprinkle, Nan Goldin, and Robert Frank... -
Song of the Silent Snow by Hubert Selby 9780241951248
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie mottoes, but panics when these mottoes turn against him;... -
The Room by Hubert Selby
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35'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... -
Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.40A re-issue of John O'Brien's debut novel, a masterpiece of modern realism about the perils of addiction and love in a city of loneliness.Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is the... -
The Willow Tree by Hubert Selby 9780141195698
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.68Bobby - 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... -
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Few novels have caused as much debate as Hubert Selby Jr.'s notorious masterpiece, Last Exit to Brooklyn, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Irvine Welsh, author of... -
The Demon by Hubert Selby
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.70Harry 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... -
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.35Harry 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... -
Jimmy & Rita by Kim Addonizio 9781936205684
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27"One of the wonderful things about Jimmy & Rita is that Kim Addonizio never imposes herself in any way, so the poems sing themselves into us. We experience the victories and defeats of Jimmy and Rita... -
Permanent Midnight: A Memoir by Jerry Stahl 9781942600053
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $37.13Jerry Stahl's seminal memoir of drug addiction and a career in Hollywood, Permanent Midnight is a classic along the lines of Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn. Illuminating the self-loathing... -
Night Train: A Biography of Sonny Liston by Nick Tosches
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $14.68A breathtakingly brutal and evocative account of the life of infamous boxing world champion Sonny Liston'Dazzling . . . An unforgettable journey to some of boxing's darkest places' Steve Bunce,... -
Me and the Devil by Nick Tosches 9780316120999
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $32.49An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can't even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets... -
Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square by Bill Landis 9780743215831
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.04Warning: Watch your wallets and stay out of the bathroom! In a bygone era, when Times Square was crammed with porn shops, gun stores, and drug pushers, disenfranchised moviegoers flocked to the... -
Shakey: Neil Young's Biography by Jimmy McDonough
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.18Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum - until now. Shakey is the... -
Pursuit: The Memoirs of John Calder by John Calder
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $26.36"Publish and be damned", Wellington's famous adage, runs like a leitmotiv through John Calder's memoirs. He has been damned by a censorious press, by politicians, by other publishers and by organs of... -
Shakey: Neil Young's Biography by Jimmy McDonough 9780099443582 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $5.04Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has granted no writer access to his inner sanctum - until now. Shakey is the... -
Rosset: My Life in Publishing and How I Fought Censorship by Barney Rosset 9781944869533
Booksplease Price: $26.02Genet Beckett Burroughs Miller Ionesco, Oe, Duras. Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Hubert Selby Jr. and John Rechy. The legendary film I Am Curious (Yellow). The books that assaulted the fort of... -
Lou Reed: The Life Mick Wall 9781409153047
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.45'This "sincere speed-written, blood-spattered tribute" strings together the raciest anecdotes...and does it rather well' SUNDAY TIMES'Mick Wall has written in a rough and unsentimental style that... -
Lou Reed: The Life by Mick Wall 9781409153078 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $5.48The biography of the legendary musician and songwriter Lou Reed. Lou Reed wrote songs about drugs, squalor, transgressive sexuality, honourable prostitutes, visionary gutter queens and... -
Lou Reed: The Life by Mick Wall 9781409153047 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $4.91'This "sincere speed-written, blood-spattered tribute" strings together the raciest anecdotes...and does it rather well' SUNDAY TIMES'Mick Wall has written in a rough and unsentimental style that... -
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things JT LeRoy 9781472152565
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.84A timely reissue of the extraordinary stories by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert that won international acclaim, to be timed with the theatrical release of the documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story.'A... -
Pig Iron by Benjamin Myers
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $14.74WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE An unflinching portrait of contemporary Traveller culture by the award-winning author of The Gallows Pole John-John wants to escape his past. But the legacy of... -
YouTube Alan Lastufka 9780596521141
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $37.67Want to make a splash on YouTube? Even go viral? You've come to the right place. This book is written by two veteran 'Tubers who live their art and know what they're talking about - especially Alan... -
Odd Birds & Fat Cats (An Urban Bestiary): (An Urban Bestiary) Peter Wortsman 9781885983596
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00Ravens in Berlin . . . Parakeets in Brooklyn . . . Chickens in Tel Aviv . . . Spiders in Cognac. City creatures spark the imagination and intellect in words and art by this father-daughter team. ... -
In the Light of You by Nathan Singer 9781982174927
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $23.25"One of the finest coming-of-age novels published so far this century" (John Connolly, New York Times bestselling author), In the Light of You is a timely and powerful story about the consequences of... -
Peach by Emma Glass
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23_______________ SELECTED BY THE INDEPENDENT AND THE OBSERVER AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 _______________ 'An immensely talented young writer ... Her fearlessness renews one's faith in the power... -
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950 by Carmen Callil 9781849016766
Booksplease Price: $43.47For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best...