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THE DEMON by Hubert Selby Jr

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.

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THE ROOM by Hubert Selby Jr

In his remand cell, a small-time petty criminal surrenders himself to the sadistic fantasies of hatred, rage and despair that are trapped inside him. This terrifying, claustrophobic descent into the isolated mind of a man locked away from society becomes, in Selby's literary tour de force, a challenging vision of a world deprived of love.

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THE SONG OF THE SILENT SNOW by Hubert Selby Jr

Author of controversial cult classic, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He excels in this form, plunging the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madness.

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WAITING PERIOD by Hubert Selby Jr

In this highly polished and twisted moral tale, a man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot himself is delayed. Instead of throwing his life away, he decides to spend all his time and effort disposing of those who he feels deserve to die.

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THE WILLOW TREE by Hubert Selby Jr

Bobby is young and black. He shares a cramped apartment in the south Bronx with his mother, his younger siblings and the ceaselessly scratching rats that infest the walls behind his bed. Barely a teenager, he is old beyond his years. The best thing in Bobby's life is Maria, his Hispanic girlfriend. They are in love, and they have big plans for the summer ahead.

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THE SILENT SIN by Anja Sicking

Anna is left orphaned and penniless after a fire breaks out in the family home. Forced into service as a maid for music publisher De Malapert, she becomes fascinated by her mysterious master. She fantasizes that he will one day marry her, but when she finds out the secret he has been hiding from the world, her hopes are shattered.

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