Hubert Selby Jr. war ein Schriftsteller, der unerschrocken die dunkelsten Winkel der menschlichen Psyche und Gesellschaft erforschte. Seine Werke, oft roh und kompromisslos, konzentrieren sich auf Themen wie Sucht, Verzweiflung und den Überlebenskampf in rauen Umgebungen. Selbys Stil zeichnet sich durch seine Direktheit und Authentizität aus, die die Leser in das Innenleben seiner Charaktere und ihre Kämpfe hineinzieht. Sein Schreiben ist ein kraftvolles Zeugnis menschlicher Widerstandsfähigkeit und des Verlangens nach Erlösung.
Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, a man attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer malfunction causes a delay with the gun license: a life-saving event that sees the man questioning why he should die when there are so many others he believes should go before him.
Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie mottoes, but panics when these mottoes turn against him; and, a commuter finds himself obsessed with a plain young woman on his train, at the expense of his marriage.
Paradoxia contains frank and often shocking confessions. Lydia Lunch relays in graphic detail a predator's diary, revealing the true psychic repercussions of sexual misadventure. From New York to London to New Orleans, Paradoxia is an uncensored, novelised account of one woman's assault on the male of the species.
