Hogg - Samuel R. Delany

Hogg

BySamuel R. Delany

  • Release Date: 2015-06-02
  • Genre: Literary Fiction
Score: 3.5
3.5
From 20 Ratings

Description

The narrator of Hogg is a Huck Finn–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.

Reviews

  • Dark very dark

    5
    By Alexander Riojas
    It’s a bit hard to read because of the shorthand slang but it’s very dark . 5 stars because of how bold it is but it’s very dark and deeply disturbing.
  • Don’t, it’s not disturbing in a fun way.

    1
    By knightoftheplains
    Gross in a way that’s not entertaining. Got 15% of the way through and that’s all I could take. Not because it’s something shocking that I’ve never heard before but because I’ve heard so many similar stories in real life. It’s painfully un shocking and fails to break the mold.

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