Jacob's Room

Jacob's Room is a linear novel concerning the life of Jacob Flanders, a fictional character whose life spans from approximately 1988 to 1914. It is written in the past tense. The novel begins during Jacob's early childhood. Jacob's mother, Elizabeth "e;Betty"e; Flanders, takes her three sons to Cornwall, England in the wake of her husband's death. The novel moves ahead to Jacob's time in universit...