Last Exit to Brooklyn (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hubert Selby
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1950’s
- Setting: The Red Hook area of Brooklyn, New York
- Principal Characters: Vinnie, Georgette, Tralala, Harry Black, Mary Black, Ginger, Alberta, Mike, Irene Kelly, Ada, Lucy, Johnny, Abraham Washington
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Poverty or poor people, Violence, Women, Men, Labor
- Locales: Brooklyn, NY
The Novel
Last Exit to Brooklyn consists of five parts and a coda. There is a central episode about a labor strike that involves the novel’s characters either directly or as peripheral onlookers. The elapsed time of the novel is several months, though no definite time markers appear in the story. There is a single omniscient narrator who describes each scene with an unflinching eye while recounting the horrors of the brutal environment of Brooklyn’s Red Hook area, which includes a military base, a manufacturing plant, and a public housing project as the focal points...
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