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Last Exit to Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes. An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected and volatile youth who has never been on the right side of the law; Tralala, who can find no escape from her loveless existence; Harry, a power-hungry strike leader with a fatal secret. Living on the edge, always walking on the wild side, their alienation and aggression mask a desperate, deep human need for affection and kinship.
Banned in Britain on first publication in 1964, Last Exit to Brooklyn brought its ex-marine, drug-addict author instant notoriety. Its truthfulness stunned a generation and continues to shock to this day.
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
13 January 1994, Grove Press
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (Black Cat Book; B543)
1986, Grove Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
0394621824 9780394621821
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
1970, Calder & Boyars, Distributed by Corgi
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0552083720 9780552083720
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