Samuel R. Delaney Hogg (Paperback) For Sale

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Title: Hogg
Condition: New
EAN: 9781573661195
ISBN: 9781573661195
Format: Paperback
Author: Samuel R. Delaney
Publisher: Fiction Collective Two
Release Date: 05/01/2004
Description: A fearless descent into the darkest corners of human desire and violence. First written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, award-winning author Samuel R. Delany’s Hogg is one of America’s most famous “unpublishable” novels. It recounts three days in 1969 in the life of truck driver and rapist-for-hire, Franklin Hargus. Narrated by his young accomplice, Delaney’s novel portrays an exploration of erotic depravity, a capacious landscape of sexuality that transgresses social and erotic boundaries. While testing readers’ tolerance, what transfigures the novel into a work of literature is Delany’s refusal, faced with moral anxieties and revulsion, to mutilate or disown his creation. Hogg’s characters wear recognizable human faces, possessing intense loyalty, perverse admiration, and a kind of integrity. Hargus fascinates. He is the embodiment of what society can turn people into, the decaying condition of the human soul.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Fiction
Item Height: 215mm
Item Weight: 369g
Item Length: 142mm
Item Width: 19mm
Release Year: 2004

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