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Original Title:	The Demon
ISBN:	0714525995 (ISBN13: 9780714525990)
Edition Language:	English

The Demon Paperback | Pages: 312 pages

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Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds -- a good marriage, a good corporate job -- the more desperate he becomes, as a life of petty crime leads to fraud and murder and, eventually, to apocalyptic violence. Author of the controversial cult classic, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby began as a writer of short fiction. He plunges the reader head-first into the densely realized worlds of his protagonists, in which the details of daily life rub shoulders with obsession and madness. Although fundamentally concerned with morality, Selby's own sense of humility prevents him from preaching. He offers instead a passionate empathy with the ordinary dreams and aspirations of his characters, a brilliant ear for the urban vernacular and for the voices of conscience and self-deceit that torment his characters.

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Title	:	The Demon
Author	:	Hubert Selby Jr.
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 312 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2000 by Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Suspense. Horror. Drama. Mystery

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The seventies were seemingly the most productive decade for Hubert Selby, whose short bibliography shows how torturously he composed his tortured (but never torturous) novels and stories. The Room was published in 1971, followed by The Demon in 1976 and Requiem For a Dream only two years(!) later. With his two masterpieces behind himRequiem and Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964)Selbys work was extremely sporadic and, apparently, subpar. Publication dates suggest this novel occupied him for half a

The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr came along more than 25 years ahead of American Psycho and I wonder if it was an inspiration for Ellis's novel. We have a similar set up, that is a rising young executive with a high paying "job" (it's never made clear what he does at work) who spends many of his hours nurturing depraved obsessions. Ellis's novel took things to the extreme, while in The Demon, our hero Harry dives into his psychosis with a methodical, deliberate approach.We first meet Harry as an

This one was hard to put down at the beginning. The progtagonist, Harry White, is a real bastard. But he's unaware of that, and finds interesting ways to justify his behavior. Stangely, he's also an optimist, at least initially, a deluded contrast I found fascinating. The humor is subtle, and dark, my favorite kind.Styleistically, the book is intriguing as well: Selby doesn't attribute in direct dialogue, doesn't use quote marks, and uses some other odd techniques that I hadn't seen before, yet

Selby JR lulls you into a false sense of security with his artless, unassuming style. You know something's coming but you feel safely distanced from it. Before you know it, you're sliding. The characters dark concerns become your concerns and before you know it you are off the rails and running the gauntlet of the psychological horror that is a genre all of it's own in Selby's hands. What you thought was artlessness is calculated manipulation and concrete style. One of the true mavericks of the

The dude could use a few quotation marks

7 days and 270 pages after (in kindle) the book number eight i read in english this year, sadly i couldnt achieve my purpuse on read one each month (or twelve in the year), but this was one of the "easiest" ones. Obviously are dozen of words i still dont know, but with each book, my vocabulary gets better. This is the first book of the author ive read, actually i didnt knew the author, but i know the movie (requiem for a dream) of one of his novels, this links the book. This book, caught me for

I read "The Demon" for the first time back in 2011, in one sitting no less. Anyone here read "American Psycho?" Okay, then you have a general idea already of who Harry White is and what he becomes. You can tell from around page 3 where this is going, but "The Demon" is one of those rare books which vindicates itself by making the ride worthwhile. It shows its work. It gives us the unbounded 'yes man;' someone who has been wildly successful in just about everything he has ever attempted, save