The L-Shaped Room (novel) is pregnant. The L-Shaped room is the dingy room at the top of the boarding house that Jane retreats to, to wallow in her miseries. Jane narrates the story as we follow her through her pregnancy and her encounters with the other residents of the boarding house, all misfits and outsiders. Jane got pregnant through a bungled sexual encounter losing her virginity to her ex-boyfriend. Her decision to live by herself and have the baby causes her to be seen as little better than the prostitutes who live in the basement of the boarding house. The L-Shaped Room (novel) The
The Room (novel) reviewer has expressed similar feelings, with claims that reading the novel made him physically sick. It has been described as "a terrifying journey into the darkest corners of the psyche." A section of "The Room" is used in Richard Linklater's "Waking Life", where a red-faced man in a jail cell describes in vivid detail the abuse he intends to inflict once he is released. The Room (novel) The Room is the second novel by Hubert Selby, Jr., first published in 1971. The novel centers on a nameless petty criminal locked in a remand cell, and explores his feelings of impotence,