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HUBERT SELBY JR.
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM
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HU
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BY J
R.Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son
of lonely widow Sara, cares only about
enjoying the good life with girlfriend
Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love,
and making the most of all the drugs
they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home
with the TV, dreaming of the life she
could have and struggling with her
own addictions - food and diet pills.
But these four will pay a terrible price
for the pleasures. A passionate, heart-
breaking tale of the crushing weight of
hope and expectation.
“One of the greatest American novels of the century”
THE NATION
“Selby places in the front rank of American novelists.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“This book marks Selby as a major American author”
LOS ANGELES TIMES
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
FIGHT CLUB
FIG
HT
CLU
B
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LAH
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KEvery weekend, in basements and
parking lots across the country, young
men with good white-collar jobs and
absent fathers take off their shoes and
shirts and fight each other barehanded
for as long as they have to. Then they
go back to those jobs with blackened
eyes and loosened teeth and the sense
that they can handle anything. Fight
Club is the invention of Tyler Durden,
projectionist, waiter and dark, anarchic
genius. And it’s only the beginning of
his plans for revenge on a world.
“A dark, unsettling and nerve-chaffing satire”
SEATTLE TIMES
“A memorable debut by an important new writer.”
Robert Stone
“Diabolically dark and funny writing”
THE WASHINGTON POST
BRET EASTON ELLIS
AMERICANPSYCHO
AM
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ICA
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HO
BR
ET E
AST
ON
ELL
ISPatrick Bateman moves among the
young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan.
Young, handsome, and well educated,
bateman earns his fortune on Wall
Street. Expressing his true self
through torture and murder, Bateman
prefigures an apocalyptic horror that
no society could bear to confront. His
nights he spends in ways we cannot
begin to fathom - doing impermissible
things to women. He is living his own
‘American Dream’.
“Mean and lean horror comedy classic”
NEW YORK TIMES
“A beautifully controlled, careful, important novel.”
Fay Weldon,THE WASHINGTON POST
“Serious, clever and shatteringly effective”
SUNDAY TIMES