Requiem for a Dream
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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A dark and harrowing modern-day fable, Requiem for a Dream is a masterpiece of urban despair that explores the crushing weight of hope and expectation. Set in the gritty streets of Coney Island, it follows four individuals—Harry Goldfarb, his girlfriend Marion, his best friend Tyrone, and his lonely mother Sara—as they succumb to their respective addictions. While the young trio dreams of escaping the ghetto through the heroin trade, Sara becomes trapped in a delusional spiral fueled by diet pills and the promise of television fame. Hubert Selby Jr. uses visceral, stream-of-consciousness prose to map their descent into an abyss where the pursuit of the American Dream becomes a waking nightmare. It is a profound and terrifyingly convincing portrait of how our habits and delusions can ultimately consume us.
Author: Hubert Selby Jr.
Format: Paperback
Published: 2012, Penguin Books
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A dark and harrowing modern-day fable, Requiem for a Dream is a masterpiece of urban despair that explores the crushing weight of hope and expectation. Set in the gritty streets of Coney Island, it follows four individuals—Harry Goldfarb, his girlfriend Marion, his best friend Tyrone, and his lonely mother Sara—as they succumb to their respective addictions. While the young trio dreams of escaping the ghetto through the heroin trade, Sara becomes trapped in a delusional spiral fueled by diet pills and the promise of television fame. Hubert Selby Jr. uses visceral, stream-of-consciousness prose to map their descent into an abyss where the pursuit of the American Dream becomes a waking nightmare. It is a profound and terrifyingly convincing portrait of how our habits and delusions can ultimately consume us.