{"product_id":"hogg-samuel-r-delany-paperback","title":"Hogg -- Samuel R. Delany, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA fearless descent into the darkest corners of human desire and violence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, award-winning author Samuel R. Delany's \u003ci\u003eHogg\u003c\/i\u003e is one of America's most famous \"unpublishable\" novels. It recounts three days in 1969 in the life of truck driver and rapist-for-hire, Franklin Hargus. Narrated by his young accomplice, Delaney's novel portrays an exploration of erotic depravity, a capacious landscape of sexuality that transgresses social and erotic boundaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile testing readers' tolerance, what transfigures the novel into a work of literature is Delany's refusal, faced with moral anxieties and revulsion, to mutilate or disown his creation. \u003ci\u003eHogg's\u003c\/i\u003e characters wear recognizable human faces, possessing intense loyalty, perverse admiration, and a kind of integrity. Hargus fascinates. He is the embodiment of what society can turn people into, the decaying condition of the human soul. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Samuel R. Delany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e FC2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\/1\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.48\" H x 5.6\" L x 0.78\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781573661195\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50771206930736,"sku":"9781573661195","price":23.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9781573661195_4b599816-f2fe-40f2-9c9c-0dae95781947.jpg?v=1775347344","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/hogg-samuel-r-delany-paperback","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}