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The Demon
Hubert Selby Jr.
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Description for The Demon
Paperback. Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. But with every achievement the desire to destroy what is his grows stronger. A demon within drives him to sexual excess, petty crime and eventually murder.
The Demon explores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141195643
SKU
V9780141195643
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About Hubert Selby Jr.
Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in Brooklyn in 1928. At the age of 15, he dropped out of school and went to sea with the merchant marines. While at sea he was diagnosed with lung disease. With no other way to make a living, he decided to try writing: 'I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.' In ... Read more
Reviews for The Demon
Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America.
The New York Times Book Review
A major author of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph Heller
Los Angeles Times
The New York Times Book Review
A major author of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph Heller
Los Angeles Times