Selby Jr., Hubert – Live in Europe 1989 - Used CD

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Selby reads sections from many of his stories from the 1960s to the 1980s, settings going back to the 1930s, providing an honest look at the 20th century in the United,  

• Recorded By, Edited By, Producer: Rollins.

• American novelist, poet and screenwriter, born July 23, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, died April 26, 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was one of America's most acclaimed postwar writers. His best known work, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964), is recognized today as a cult classic.   With no formal writing training, Selby used a raw language to depict the bleak and violent world that encompassed his youth, which would go on to set the stage for his early life. His first novel was prosecuted for obscenity in the United Kingdom and banned in Italy, which prompted defenses from many leading authors such as Anthony Burgess. He has influenced multiple generations of writers.  Hubert Selby was born in 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Adalin and Hubert Selby Sr., a merchant seaman and former coal miner from Kentucky. Selby Jr. dropped out of school at the age of 15 to work in the city docks before becoming a merchant seaman in 1947. Having been diagnosed with tuberculosis, he was taken off the ship in Germany, and sent back to the United States. For the next three and a half years, Selby was in and out of the U.S. Public Health Hospital  Selby went through an experimental drug treatment,  that later caused some severe complications. During an operation, surgeons removed several of Selby's ribs to reach his lungs. One of his lungs collapsed, and doctors removed part of the other.   Unable to have regular work because of his health, Selby decided, "I know the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer."[5] He later wrote: I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life. Little concerned with proper grammar, punctuation, or diction, Selby used unorthodox techniques in most of his works. He indented  his paragraphs with alternating lengths, often by simply dropping down one line when finished with a paragraph.