Requiem for a dream

Hubert Selby, Jr. First published 1978

About this book

This book is about four individuals who pursued the American Dream. In this searing novel, two young hoods, Harry and Tyrone, and a girlfriend fantasize about scoring a pound of uncut heroin and getting rich. But their heroin habit gets the better of them, consumes them and destroys their dreams and Harry's mother's addiction to diet pills lands her in a state mental hospital.

Subjects

  • alienation (social psychology)
  • drug abuse
  • drug addicts
  • fiction
  • fiction in english
  • fiction, media tie-in
  • fiction, psychological
  • mothers and sons
  • mothers and sons, fiction
  • new york (n.y.), fiction