Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781573661195 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1573661198 |
| Author: | Samuel R. Delaney |
| Publisher: | The University of Alabama Press |
| Imprint: | Fiction Collective Two |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 219 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2004 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 142mm x 19mm |
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“There is no question thatHoggby Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit.” -Norman Mailer
“There is no question that Hogg by Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit.” —Norman Mailer
“The most shocking novel published in the 20th century.” —American Book Review
”Hogg is a truly significant book. It is distasteful, raw, and upsetting; it also treats some of the sexual taboos that Americans do not want addressed in either art or politics. Hogg is an artistic triumph, as well as a political one.” —John O’Brien, Dalkey Archive Press
About The Author
Samuel R. Delaney
Samuel R. Delany is one of the most celebrated writers of speculative fiction and is also a noted author of scripts, a director, and the editor of two short films. His novel Babel-17 won the Science Fiction Writers of America Award in 1966 and he has also won four Nebula Awards and one Hugo Award. His other books include The Bridge of Lost Desire, Dhalgren, Atlantis: Three Tales, The Star Pits, and Equinox. He currently teaches Queer Studies at Temple University.
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