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      Room

      by Hubert Selby Jr.
      Published
      Jul 1988
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      288
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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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      First Edition Jul 1988 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780586086773 ISBN10 0586086773
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      Dec 1971 Grove Press ISBN13 9780394178165 ISBN10 0394178165
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      Apr 2001 Marion Boyars Publishers ISBN13 9780714530383 ISBN10 0714530387
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      Jul 2000 Marion Boyars Publishers ISBN13 9780714508887 ISBN10 0714508888
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      Dec 2011 Open Road Publishing ISBN13 9781453235409 ISBN10 145323540X
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      Dec 2011 Open Road Publishing ISBN10 B006D23CR2
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