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

The Demon

Hubert Selby Jr.

Paperback | Pages: 312 pages

Rating: 3.64 | 3719 Users | 148 Reviews

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Title	:	The Demon
Author	:	Hubert Selby Jr.
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First 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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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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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

This book was all too familiar. Quite similar to American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, with the exception of that was a far better book than this one. Far better. I'm really not understanding all of the 4 and 5 stars this book has received. Once you get past the lack of quotations, apostrophes, and continuous, ongoing sentences during the "what's-going-on-in-my-head" scenes, you're able to focus more on the plot. This plot isn't nearly as graphic as the aforementioned book, unfortunately. The

Damn.Reading this makes you want to go home and hug someone. It's got plenty to say both about depravity and mental illness and about the emptiness of this whole American dream business. I felt like it was in some ways more disturbing than Last Exit or Requiem, as the characters are more familiar than, say, heroin addicts and transvestite prostitutes.

The dude could use a few quotation marks

This is a sad day for me indeed. Having finished reading The Demon means that, barring a posthumous collection of some kind--given the appearance of certain non-published texts in spoken word collections not an impossibility perhaps--I have read everything written and published by my second favorite author of all-time, Hubert Selby Jr. The Demon came last in my reading simply because it took me a rather long time to find a copy; but find it I did--last summer at Aardvark Books, my favorite

After having been floored by Selby's "The Room" a few months ago, I went into "The Demon" not expecting to be as moved and instead I found myself bored, stiff. Our protagonist is another Harry White and he works for a large corporation (and none of this works, not his relationship with the company or anything else with the exception of 3 pages of a sizeable paragraph around page 95) and sleeps with as many women as he can fit into his schedule, loving this little activity so much he even created

This is Selby at his best. An outstanding book. An obsessive, powerful one. In which the main character defies himself, constantly, in a sort of permanent bet. Would say is the story of an ordinary, common man, easy to identify with. Till he starts, step after another, becoming something very different. But it all happens as if playing with himself. A quite weird play. That is going to drive him during the whole book. As if he were all of a sudden, lead by some obscure and playful demon. One can