Novels set in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn (Ava: 2014, cinema)
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The list mentions Hubert Selby Jr. but not his best known book Last Exit to Brooklyn. I think it was set mostly in Sunset Park. The tough waterfront neighborhoods.
[quote=r small;36922660]The list mentions Hubert Selby Jr. but not his best known book Last Exit to Brooklyn. I think it was set mostly in Sunset Park. The tough waterfront neighborhoods.[/quot
Yes, interesting that they didn't go with Selby's Last Exit To Brooklyn or with Henry Miller's Tropic Of Capricorn. Neither novel showed much love for Brooklyn and both suffered bans around the world and in the U.S.
One of the best of the "Leaves of Grass" is the poem, CROSSING BROOKLYN FERRY.
(Probably Whitman looking for hot sailors.)
Of course the most definitive Brooklyn literary character is Brookyn's famous flying elephant, DUMBO.
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