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Room
By Donoghue, Emma
Room
Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, "Room" is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.
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Authors:
Donoghue, Emma
Copyright:
2010
Format:
Hardcover
GTIN13:
9780316098335
ISBN10:
0316098337
Page Count:
336
Dimensions:
6.2x1.2x9.3
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company
Strand Notes
A five-year-old boy - who's lived his whole life in a single room - narrates this riveting story of the power of a mother's love. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 272p.
Description
Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating -- a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.
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