In one of this author's last novels, Maria commits suicide because her face is destroyed when a gang attacks her and her boyfriend Bobby, who befriends a Holocaust survivor named Moishe. He called one of his own novels "the most disturbing book ever written," and could not read it for years after he wrote it. That novel explores the psyche of an enraged man who is in jail for a crime he claims not to have committed. This author of The Willow Tree and The Room wrote a nov
In one of this author's last novels, Maria commits suicide because her face is destroyed when a gang attacks her and her boyfriend Bobby, who befriends a Holocaust survivor named Moishe. He called one of his own novels "the most disturbing book ever written," and could not read it for years after he wrote it. That novel explores the psyche of an enraged man who is in jail for a crime he claims not to have committed. This author of The Willow Tree and The Room wrote a novel ending with a coda called "Landsend" and including sections titled "The Queen Is Dead" and "Another Day, Another Dollar," which includes a controversial scene in which a prostitute named Tralala is gang-raped. He also wrote a novel about the drug addicts Harry, Marion, Tyrone, and Sara, which was made into a movie by Darren Aronofsky. For 10 points, name this author of Requiem for a Dream and Last Exit to Brooklyn.
In one of this author's last novels, Maria commits suicide because her face is destroyed when a gang attacks her and her boyfriend Bobby, who befriends a Holocaust survivor named Moishe.
Hubert Selby, Jr.