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The Room, Paperback / softback Book

The Room Paperback / softback

Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series

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'It is quite an experience to be locked up all by yourself in any size room' says the anonymous narrator of Hubert Selby Jr.'s second novel.

What follows is a startling series of recollections and fantasies that illuminate the workings of a prisoner's unhinged mind.

He yearns for his violent childhood, rages against obscure authorities, and imagines enacting horrible revenge on those who imprisoned him.

The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture. Disorienting, nightmarish and structurally inventive, The Room is a shocking examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other.

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