Penguin Books Australia

'Selby brings a scorching light to a limited area of human existence, which most people know of but do not know'
Newsweek

'When Selby decides to attack, it is with the shock of a practised mugger and with the speed and economy of a poet'
The Los Angeles Times

'Selby's work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoevsky's'
The New York Times Book Review

'We believe Selby's characters and will never forget them. Selby has written from the gut with great compassion'
The Nation

Fat 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; a date goes so perfectly a man talks himself out of ever seeing the woman again;...

With a new Introduction by
Irvine Welsh

' Last Exit to Brooklyn will explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America, and still be eagerly read in 100 years'
Allen Ginsberg

'Selby's best book'
The Times Literary Supplement

'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...