Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Room Release date is 2004-05-01
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"Jacob's Room" by Virginia Woolf is a novel published in 1922. The story follows Jacob Flanders from childhood through Cambridge and into adulthood in pre-war England, but with a radical twist: Jacob himself remains elusive, known only through the impressions of others. Women in his life—including the reserved Clara Durrant and bohemian artist Florinda—provide glimpses of a man who exists more as absence than presence. This experimental modernist work haunts readers with its void at the center, presenting a protagonist through memories and sensations rather than concrete reality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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