# The Room

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- Book: [The Room](https://www.bookquiver.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room) ([The Room.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hubert-selby-jr/the-room.md))
- Authors: [Hubert Selby Jr.](https://www.bookquiver.com/hubert-selby-jr)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-567-4
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2011-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.