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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)

Requiem for a Dream

Hubert Selby Jr.

Trade Paperback | Pages: 279 pages

Rating: 4.11 | 53349 Users | 1172 Reviews

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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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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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I read a review about the movie that said that the movie, Requiem, burrows under your skin and stays there for a while. This is true of the book, too. Each character speaks differently and you have to get used to their way of speaking as the author doesn't use punctuation marks and end sentences with 'Harry replied' or 'Marian said.' It is a fresh style of reading. This book IS very disturbing; so disturbing that a friend of mine threw it across the room when he finished it and asked me why

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

When dreams become nightmares.There are four key characters in Requiem for a Dream: Sara Goldfarb, a lonely widow who spends her days watching television and eating chocolate; her son Harry; Harrys friend Tyrone C. Love and Harrys girlfriend Marion. These four lead us through the depths and despair of addiction. As the story opens, its summer in New York City and Harry and Tyrone take Saras television to the pawn shop. They need the money for drugs. Sara gets her television back not for the

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

We all want to have better lives. When I was young, I wanted to be a teacher my father said no money in teaching. So, I wanted to be an agriculturist he said you will be digging dirt till the day you die. So, I wanted to be a priest priests die with their ass dirty as no one takes care of them. So, what? Why not be a doctor? Okay. After becoming a medtech, what? But he did not have money to send me to a medical school. Ha ha ha ha In my iPod, I have this song by The Pussycat Dolls. One morning,

I dont know why I was rooting for the characters in this book. I knew deep down, in true Selby style, theyd be stripped to nothing, one by one. Totally on the edge of my seat the whole time. So sad but so full of character.

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,