Requiem for a Dream
Requiem for a Dream
Editorial Reviews
New York Times Book Review
"Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists."
Book Description
In this searing novel first published in 1978, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital.
Requiem for a Dream,Hubert Selby Jr.,Thunder's Mouth Press,1560252480,Coney Island (New York, N.Y.),Drug abuse,Drug addicts,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Literary,Mothers and sons,Selby, Hubert - Prose & Criticism,Fiction/Literature
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