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Requiem for a Dream

Hubert Selby Jr.

Trade Paperback | Pages: 279 pages

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Original Title:	Requiem for a Dream
ISBN:	1560252480 (ISBN13: 9781560252481)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Tyrone C, Sara Goldfarb, Harry Goldfarb, Marion
Setting:	Coney Island, New York(United States)

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In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and leisure by scoring a pound of uncut heroin. Entranced by the gleaming visions of their futures, these four convince themselves that unexpected setbacks are only temporary. Even as their lives slowly deteriorate around them, they cling to their delusions and become utterly consumed in the spiral of drugs and addiction, refusing to see that they have instead created their own worst nightmares. "Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists. HIs work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Doestoevsky's. To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America." - The New York Times Book Review

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Title	:	Requiem for a Dream
Author	:	Hubert Selby Jr.
Book Format	:	Trade Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 279 pages
Published	:	October 12th 1999 by Da Capo Press (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Classics. Contemporary. Drama. Novels

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UPDATE "On acid stars you're getting there"-HoleBAD MOVE.Requiem For A Dream follows the downward trajectory of lives of four people in 1980's living in Bronx. It talks about addiction. About how it plunges a knife in the stomach and ruthlessly murders the American Dream.I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing. Requiem for a Dream is the story of four addicts. There's Sara, the empty nester, TV

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die. Somehow after watching the movie the book is bearable but still pretty heartbreaking. It is a great book if you have the time to actually read it, 'cause, it needs time to be digested.You need the time to cry and mourn for the lives of these characters, is sad and heartbreaking, and it will make you wonder what are you doing reading this in the first place. Requiem for a

First published in 1978, seven years after the start of the War on Drugs, Requiem for a Dream tracks the course of four lives as theyre destroyed by addiction. The novel is written in the stream-of-consciousness mode, but far from the eloquent formalism of modernists like Woolf or the rambling spontaneity of the less talented Beat writers, Selbys prose reads as frenetic, tense, and unsettling. His characters thoughts become increasingly repetitive and distorted as they succumb to opioid

I'm not even sure where to begin.This book was incredibly hard, and at times painful, to read. The opening scene is of a young man and his friend taking his mother's television to the pawn shop to get money for heroin. Although there is nothing funny about that when you really think about it, I thought that I was in for a sad story told in a comical way. I mean this t.v. has been pawned by the boy and then bought back by the mom so many times that the pawn shop owner has a book to record the

I'm quite surprised that many readers regard it as a book about drug addiction and junkies of different types. I (as the title clearly states) mainly see it as an attempt of pursuing the American Dream, the one that grants all American citizens total and pure freedom. And so, since nobody really knows if the Dream is dead or not, anybody is free to try it out.What makes it better than the film (if this was ever debatable), is the story-line and the stories behind the characters. Due to my bad

Among the people who try to find the meaning of the dreams or even interpret them, there are some for whom the mere hint of any positive dream is Life. The solitude, oblivious to the surrounding and the troubles which keep them wide awake in the darkest nights, is what they look for feeling them as a whole. Unable to find it, these ill-fated souls stimulate their solitude by poisoning their veins to save themselves from the madness that is leisurely side-walking toward them. Little do they know

After reading Last Exit to Brooklyn, I thought that I had seen the worst of Selby's characters. As I tensely awaited the conclusion of each chapter, hoping that maybe just one of the characters would manage to get ahead or break the cycle of dependency on drugs, I would be rendered speechless by the desperation and insanity brought on by addiction. As the darkness of winter descends upon Brooklyn, Harry, Tyrone & Marion all find themselves stumbling through the night to get their next fix,