Hogg
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3.5 • 17 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hugo-and Nebula Award-winner Delany--whose early books were fascinating but whose recent efforts have grown increasingly obtuse--has been trying to get this pornographic novel published since 1973. The main narrator here is an 11-year-old boy who joins up with a raping, murdering pederast named Hogg. Coprophiliac Hogg violates women for pay. He enlists the help of other pedophiliac murdering rapists--Nigg, Dago and Denny--and the group sets off to perform acts of hideous violence. After the attacks, a biker friend of Hogg's sells the boy into sexual slavery to dockyard slum resident Big Sambo, who keeps his 12-year-old daughter for prostitution and his own perversions. The traumatized little girl is gang-raped by Hogg's crew as well. Meanwhile, teenaged Denny goes on an insane mutilating and mass-murder spree, eludes the police and finally returns to Hogg and the hopelessly confused narrator, who has been ``rescued'' after Hogg murders Big Sambo. Gang-rape attacks and criminal sex orgies are detailed at excruciating length, with photographic realism. This potent emetic is all the more disturbing for want of modulators of honest outrage. In other works, Delany has examined the role of the criminal within society; with Hogg, he apparently was content merely to inhabit the criminal mind without exploring it.
Customer Reviews
Dark very dark
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.
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.