{"product_id":"hogg-9781573661195","title":"Hogg","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"There is no question that Hogg by Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit.\" --Norman Mailer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\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","brand":"Ripon Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44147466698797,"sku":"9781573661195","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/0501\/1245\/files\/img_0359c884-6888-4007-93f8-9924c6acedf4.jpg?v=1757185946","url":"https:\/\/riponbookstore.com\/products\/hogg-9781573661195","provider":"Ripon Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}