Waiting Period Hubert Selby JR
2004 Longlist

Waiting Period

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

A man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot himself is delayed by an unexpected computer glitch. Forced to wait until the error is cleared, he begins to rethink his position and eventually decides that, instead of violently throwing his life away, he will dedicate his time and effort to disposing of all those he feels deserve to die. Targeting a bureaucrat in the Veterans’ Administration to start with, he devises an ingenious method of murdering him without a trace. His plan a terrifying and vengeful success, the man embarks on a joyful killing spree with a renewed zest for living, having found the true purpose of his existence. But whose is the other voice? -the one that comments so wisely and so compassionately, and with such evident approval, upon everything the man does? Told with Selby’s customary formal daring and stylistic élan, Waiting Period may not offer any answers to the meaning of life, but it certainly poses a lot of interesting new questions.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Hubert
Selby Jr.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
01/04/2002
Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Marion Boyars

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