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The Demon

Hubert Selby Jr author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:25th Aug '11

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The Demonexplores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping twentieth-century tragedy.

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children.

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. But with every achievement the desire to destroy what is his grows stronger. A demon within drives him to sexual excess, petty crime and eventually murder.

The Demon explores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping twentieth-century tragedy.

Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America. * The New York Times Book Review *
A major author of a stature with William Burroughs and Joseph Heller * Los Angeles Times *

ISBN: 9780141195643

Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 18mm

Weight: 217g

288 pages