The Room

Hubert Selby, Jr. First published 1971

About this book

Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time criminal surrenders himself to sadistic fantasies of hatred and revenge. Selby's second novel is a claustrophobic descent into the tormented soul of a man trapped in a loveless society.

Subjects

fiction
fiction, general
fiction, psychological
mentally ill
prisoners
psychological fiction
reading level-grade 10
reading level-grade 11
reading level-grade 12
reading level-grade 7
reading level-grade 8
reading level-grade 9
united states, fiction