In his remand cell, a small-time petty criminal surrenders himself to
the sadistic fantasties of hatred, rage and despair that are trapped
inside him. This terrifying, claustrophobic descent into the isolated
mind of a man locked away from society becomes, in Selby's compassionate
literary tour de force, a challeging vision of a world deprived of love.
The blistering follow-up to Selby's best-selling cult classic Last Exit
to Brooklyn, The Room still has the power to provoke, to chill and to
disturb