The Demon

Häftad bok. Marion Boyars . 1998. 312 sidor.

Gott skick. Ex library.
Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds (a good marriage, a good corporate job the more desperate he becomes, as a life of petty crime leads to fraud and murder and, eventually, to apocalyptic violence.
After a career in the merchant marine cut short by illness, Hubert Selby started publishing stories in the 1950s. He achieved international recognition in 1963 with the publication of Last Exit to Brooklyn, released as a major motion picture in 1990.
'Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language.'
—Financial Times
'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America.'
—The New York Times
'It is the clash of aspiration, fantasy and desire with the boundaries of the purely contingent that provides the drama of Selby's work and its ferocious poetry.
— Times Literary Supplement
There is enough of Harry White in our own vagrant daydreams and angry fantasies to attach us to Selby's grim story and to validate his conviction that aberrance is a matter of definition and degree, not of kind. Selby has a brilliant ear ... once again he confirms his amazing power of expressing human darkness.'
-Newsweek
'A major American author, of a stature with William S. Burroughs and Joseph Heller.'
—Los Angeles Times.