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Hubert " Cubby " Selby Jr. [1] (July 23, 1928 – April 26, 2004) was an American writer. Two of his novels, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and Requiem for a Dream (1978), explore worlds in the New York area and were adapted as films, both of which he appeared in.
Apr 27, 2004 · Hubert Selby Jr., the Brooklyn-born ex-merchant mariner who turned to drugs and to writing after cheating death and created a lasting vision of urban hell in his novel ''Last Exit to...
Apr 26, 2004 · Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in Brooklyn and went to sea as a merchant marine while still in his teens. Laid low by lung disease, he was, after a decade of hospitalizations, written off as a goner and sent home to die.
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel takes a harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s written in a brusque, everyman style of prose.
Jan 1, 2001 · Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky (Foreword), Richard Price (Foreword) 4.11. 60,806 ratings1,863 reviews. In Coney Island, Brooklyn, lonely widow Sarah Goldfarb wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show.
Apr 28, 2004 · Hubert Selby Jr., the internationally acclaimed author of “Last Exit to Brooklyn,” “Requiem for a Dream” and other dark, existential novels that dealt with the victims of a society that had...
Selby, Hubert, Jr.(b. 23 July 1928 in New York City; d. 26 April 2004 in Los Angeles, California), writer best known for Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964), a novel that shocked readers with its unflinching portrayal of human depravity.
