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"ASSURES SELBY'S PLACE IN THE FIRST RANK OF AMERICAN NOVELISTS!
His work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoyevsky's He has created characters with a concreteness, force and individuality seldom found in American fiction. And yet they are eminently American characters. They could exist nowhere else. That is why to understand Selby's work is to understand the angiiish<of America Selby's genius is that he compels us to feel. And that is a marvelous thing."
-Dotson Rader, N.Y. TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"A horroi tale of nightmarish proportions. It cannot be dismissed lightly as another sexsational novel; rather, it is a serious, moral story of frightening reality It is an indictment of all abuses of authority. An unforgettable story of a madman, it questions our own Sanity."-best sellers
"No other American writer has conveyed so brilliantly the fierce, primal competitions of the street Selby's genius is for writing... Tovább

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THE ROOM
"ASSURES SELBY'S PLACE IN THE FIRST RANK OF AMERICAN NOVELISTS!
His work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Dostoyevsky's He has created characters with a concreteness, force and individuality seldom found in American fiction. And yet they are eminently American characters. They could exist nowhere else. That is why to understand Selby's work is to understand the angiiish<of America Selby's genius is that he compels us to feel. And that is a marvelous thing."
-Dotson Rader, N.Y. TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"A horroi tale of nightmarish proportions. It cannot be dismissed lightly as another sexsational novel; rather, it is a serious, moral story of frightening reality It is an indictment of all abuses of authority. An unforgettable story of a madman, it questions our own Sanity."-best sellers
"No other American writer has conveyed so brilliantly the fierce, primal competitions of the street Selby's genius is for writing of the unlovable 'with love' and with a strength and purity of style that make his work one of the most remarkable achievements in current literature. Selby has a gift for capturing the rage that explodes within every American city an unerring instinct for honing our collapse into novels as glittering and as cutting as pure, black, jagged glass."
—Josephine Hendin, SATURDAY REVIEW Vissza