Hubert Selby, Jr.

Hailed as an uncompromising look at life on the dark side, Last Exit to Brooklyn follows a gang of young hoodlums, a down and out call girl, an alcoholic father, and a low level union official as they attempt to survive in the harsh underbelly of lower class 1950s Brooklyn. Adapted from the cult classic best-selling novel by Hubert Selby Jr., the New York Times calls Last Exit "harrowing" yet "savagely beautiful".

Set in Brooklyn during the 1950s against a backdrop of union corruption and violence. A prostitute falls in love with one of her customers. Also a disturbed man discovers that he is homosexual.

"The best book ever written by man or woman…deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."—Rebel, Inc.
Brace yourself, America, for Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting—the novel and the film that became the cult sensations of Britain. Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspotting was made into the 1996 cult film starring Ewan MacGregor and directed by Danny Boyle (A Shallow Grave).

Le réalisme de The Wire allié à la frénésie de Bad Lieutenant : un roman d'une intensité hallucinatoire.
Lorsqu'il devient ambulancier dans l'un des quartiers les plus difficiles de New York, Ollie Cross est loin d'imaginer qu'il vient d'entrer dans un monde fait d'horreur, de folie et de mort. Scènes de crime, blessures par balles, crises de manque, violences et détresses, le combat est permanent, l'enfer quotidien…

"So Real It Hurts is the perfect title for this collection. It's a mission statement. A few bleeding slices straight from the butcher shop. A sampler from an enormous archive of work that will, no doubt, be pored over by grad students, book lovers, film historians, music nerds and straight-up perverts a hundred years from now." —Anthony Bourdain, from the Introduction