Hogg
First published 1994
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"First written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, Hogg is one of America's most famous " unpublishable" novels. It recounts three horrifically violent days in 1969 in the life of truck driver and rapist-for-hire, Franklin Hargus.
Narrated by his young accomplice, the novel portrays a descent into unimaginable depravity. What transforms this nightmare into literature is Delany's refusal, faced with our moral anxieties, to mutilate his appalling creation.
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Hogg's monsters wear our faces, possessing the human complexities of intense loyalty perverse admiration, and an integrity so pure that pity becomes betrayal." --BOOK JACKET.
Source: Open Library
Book information
- Author
- Samuel R. Delany
- First published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Fiction Collective 2
- Language
- ENG
- ISBN-13
- 9781573661195