The Willow Tree

Author:   Hubert Selby Jr.
Publisher:   Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
ISBN:  

9780714531397


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   17 May 2007
Format:   Paperback
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The Willow Tree


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"Bobby is young and black. He shares a cramped apartment in the South Bronx with his mother, his younger siblings and the ceaselessly scratching rats that infest the walls behind his bed. Barely a teenager, he is old beyond his years. The best thing in Bobby's life is Maria, his Hispanic girlfriend. They are in love, and they have big plans for the summer ahead. Their lives are irrevocably shattered when a vicious Hispanic street gang attack the couple as they walk to school. With Bobby savagely beaten and Maria lying in hospital, terrified and engulfed by the pain of her badly burned face, ""The Willow Tree"" takes the reader on a volcanically powerful trip through the lives of America's dispossessed inner-city dwellers. Into this bleak and smouldering hinterland, however, Selby introduces a small but vital note of love and compassion. When Bobby's bruised and bloodied body is discovered by Moishe, an aged concentration camp survivor, an unlikely friendship begins. As Moishe slowly, painfully, reveals his own tragic story, Bobby struggles angrily with his desperate need for revenge."

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Author:   Hubert Selby Jr.
Publisher:   Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.218kg
ISBN:  

9780714531397


ISBN 10:   0714531391
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   17 May 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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'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 'Hubert Selby is probably one of the six best novelists writing in the English language.' Financial Times


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Hubery Selby is acknowledged as one of the major 20th century American writers. Two of his cult classic novels have been made into films, LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, directed by Darren Aronofsky. Also by Hubert Selby Jr available from Marion Boyars: Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Room, The Demon, Requiem for a Dream and Song of the Silent Snow.

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