The narrator ofHoggis a Huck Finnlike youngster caught in society's most sinister seamsbut unlike Huck, he passes no moral judgments on the violence he takes part in...Hoggis the story of a mana depraved trucker named Franklin Hargus, whom the people he works for call Hoggand 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 ofHoggwithin 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.
