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Part I

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Selby, Hubert Jr. Last Exit to Brooklyn. Grove Press, 1964.

• The novel begins in a Greek restaurant/diner that is visited by unemployed men named Freddie, Vinnie, Tony, and Harry, who loiter in the restaurant.

• Prostitutes and soldiers also hang out in the Greek restaurant.

• Freddie, Vince, Tony, and Harry do not like the soldiers, but the boys thrive off the intensity of restaurant and wait until something happens.

• A soldier puts on the song "Lefty Frizzle" on the jukebox and Freddie, Vinnie, Tony, and Harry go outside to talk about cars and women, until one of them suggests a game of Mum, a game in which one of them stands in the center of a circle and the others try to punch him.

• Then, the boys wash up in the restaurant bathroom.

• They...

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