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Requiem for a Dream
by Hubert Selby Jr.
This work has unquestionably found a place on my greatest books of all time list (as does the movie adaptation by Darron Aronovsky on my respective greatest films list). Trying to identify all of the things that make this novel so deeply moving and revealing and intimate and harrowing and monumental would be too difficult, and I’d be in constant fear of leaving something vitally important out. Selby doesn’t pull his punches, but when he does take a swing it’s never for mere shock value or exhibitionism. At its heart, this book is about examining with eyes wide open the strangulation of beauty, and the violent extinguishing of some kind of indescribable light within a person. It is indeed, profoundly so, a requiem for a dream.