What are some good books about down-on-their-luck, hustling characters

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2016-01-28 19:34:09 Post No. 7634314
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Anonymous 2016-01-28 19:34:09 Post No. 7634314 [Report]

What are some good books about down-on-their-luck, hustling characters that have turned to petty crimes and self-destructive vices in an urban society, similar to Chase from Neuromancer?

The setting doesn't matter.

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Anonymous 2016-01-28 19:40:21 Post No.7634338
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Anonymous 2016-01-28 19:40:21 Post No.7634338 [Report]

>>7634314
The Bible

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Anonymous 2016-01-28 19:47:15 Post No.7634365
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Anonymous 2016-01-28 19:47:15 Post No.7634365 [Report]

Anything by Genet

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Anonymous 2016-01-28 19:55:44 Post No.7634393
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Anonymous 2016-01-28 19:55:44 Post No.7634393 [Report]

>>7634314
Don Quixote

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Anonymous 2016-01-28 20:01:56 Post No.7634411
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Anonymous 2016-01-28 20:01:56 Post No.7634411 [Report]

>>7634314
Burrough's Junky

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Anonymous 2016-01-28 20:12:14 Post No.7634441
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Anonymous 2016-01-28 20:12:14 Post No.7634441 [Report]

OP here.

>>7634411

Yup, I've read it, pretty much what I'm looking for.

>>7634365

Fuck, these look particularly interesting.

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Anonymous 2016-01-28 20:14:21 Post No.7634447
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Anonymous 2016-01-28 20:14:21 Post No.7634447 [Report]

Hubert Selby Jr's Requiem for a Dream and maybe his Last Exit to Brooklyn

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Anonymous 2016-01-28 20:22:13 Post No.7634475
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Anonymous 2016-01-28 20:22:13 Post No.7634475 [Report]

>>7634314
The Grifters, and probably most of Jim Thompson's other books.

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Anonymous 2016-01-28 21:56:37 Post No.7634844
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The entire genre of the Picaresque.