{"product_id":"hogg-9781573661195-new","title":"Hogg","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fearless descent into the darkest corners of human desire and violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"F2C","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67559113720098,"sku":"9781573661195-new","price":21.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781573661195.jpg?v=1792476237","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/hogg-9781573661195-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}