Hogg
Hogg
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Author(s)/Editor(s): Delany, Samuel R. - -
Binding: QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
YearMonthDay of Publication: 20040501
Standardized Book Category: LGBTQ+ - Gay
Language:
English
Page Count:
00268
Publisher Marketing: Explores America's culture of sexual violence and degeneration
First written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, award-winning author Samuel R. Delany's Hogg is one of America's most famous "unpublishable" novels. It recounts three days in 1969 in the life of truck driver and rapist-for-hire, Franklin Hargus. Narrated by his young accomplice, Delaney's novel portrays an exploration of erotic depravity, a capacious landscape of sexuality that transgresses social and erotic boundaries. While testing readers' tolerance, what transfigures the novel into a work of literature is Delany's refusal, faced with moral anxieties and revulsion, to mutilate or disown his creation. Hogg's characters wear recognizable human faces, possessing intense loyalty, perverse admiration, and a kind of integrity. Hargus fascinates. He is the embodiment of what society can turn people into, the decaying condition of the human soul.This product belongs in the following collections: