Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 25/08/2011
ISBN: 9780141195674
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 179g
RRP: £9.99
'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.
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 25/08/2011
ISBN: 9780141195674
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 179g
RRP: £9.99
Selby's best book
A terrifying journey into the darkest corners of the psyche
Selby deploys street slang, common speech, argot and scatology to create a high poetic art...it seems to derive from the greatest American poetry--Whitman, Pound, Williams, and Olson
One must be grateful to Selby for his fatal vision and strong, original talent
'Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists ... to understand his work is to understand the anguish of America.'
It's absolutely horrific ... but just about the most powerful novel I've ever read