{"product_id":"hogg-9781573661195","title":"Hogg","description":"\u003cb\u003eExplores America's culture of sexual violence and degeneration\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, award-winning author Samuel R. Delany's Hogg 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While 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. Hogg's 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samuel R. Delany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 5.60w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst Edition, Edition\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"F2c","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42448304373897,"sku":"9781573661195","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_664d3e49-e24b-4006-99ab-d2091234a8ca.jpg?v=1716147628","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/hogg-9781573661195","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}