The Demon

The Demon

Summary

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. But with every achievement the desire to destroy what is his grows stronger. A demon within drives him to sexual excess, petty crime and eventually murder.

The Demon explores the dark side of a man's ambitions with unflinching determination. Harry White's story is a gripping twentieth-century tragedy.

Reviews

  • Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America.
    The New York Times Book Review

About the author

Hubert Selby Jr.

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