An edition of Room (2010)

Room

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An edition of Room (2010)

Room

Trade paperback edition
  • 4.47 ·
  • 15 Ratings
  • 164 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 32 Have read

To 5-year-old Jack, Room is the world...

It is where he was born. It's where he and Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack's imagination-the snake under Bed that he constructs out of seashells; the imaginary world projected through the TV; the coziness of Wardrobe beneath Ma's clothes, where she tucks him in safely at night, in case Old Nick comes.

Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it's the prison where she's been held since she was nineteen- for seven long years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in that eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But Jack's curiosity is building alongside Ma's own desperation, and she knows that Room cannot contain either indefinitely...

Told in the inventive, funny, and poignant voice of Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience-and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

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Language
English
Pages
321

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Edition Notes

Published in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Copyright Date
2010

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6054 O547 R66 2011

The Physical Object

Format
paperback
Pagination
321p.
Number of pages
321

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25264917M
Internet Archive
roomnovel0000dono_w9i5
ISBN 10
1554688329
ISBN 13
9781554688326
OCLC/WorldCat
1140501732
Goodreads
10439643

Work Description

Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case.

The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada). It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.

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