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;...

'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists' 
The New York Times

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...

'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...