Hogg
  • Published:
    1996
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Science Fiction
  • Pages:
    219
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The narrator of Hogg is a Huck Finnâ€"like youngster caught in society's most sinister seams -- but unlike Huck, he passes no moral judgments on the violence he takes part in . . .

Hogg is the story of a man -- a depraved trucker named Franklin Hargus, whom the people he works for call Hogg -- and of the nameless boy who tells the story of three days of unspeakable sexual violence and devastation, which, together, they initiate in a small seaside American city in the middle of the last century. Hogg is a towering brute who makes his living as a rapist for hire. By the end of a series of vicious attacks, kidnappings, and mass murders, the reader will wonder who is more corrupt: the man or the boy.
 
Samuel R. Delany completed his first draft of Hogg within a day, if not within hours, of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City and revised it over the next four years, though it was not released until 1995.
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    • Jan-1995
    • Black Ice Books
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1573660493
    • ISBN13: 9781573660495
    •  
    • Mar-1996
    • Black Ice Books
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1573660116
    • ISBN13: 9781573660112
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    • May-2004
    • University of Alabama Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1573661198
    • ISBN13: 9781573661195
    •  
    • Mar-1995
    • University of Alabama Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0932511880
    • ISBN13: 9780932511881
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    • Jun-2015
    • Open Road Media
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jun-2015
    • Open Road Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1504011570
    • ISBN13: 9781504011570



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