Room: A Novel - Softcover

Donoghue, Emma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316125083 ISBN 13: 9780316125086

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2010

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2010-8-1 Pages: 321 To five-year-old Jack. Room is the entire world It is where he was born and grew up; its where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and. eat and sleep and play. 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 is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination. ingenuity. and fierce motherly love. Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows its not enough ... not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan. one that relies on her young sons bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.Told entirely in the language of the energetic. pragmatic five-year-old Jack. ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between...

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Review

Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. Jack moved me greatly. His voice, his story, his innocence, his love for Ma combine to create something very unusual and, I think, something very important . . . Room deserves to reach the widest possible audience (John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas)

Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days (Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife)

I've never read a more heart-burstingly, gut wrenchingly compassionate novel . . . As for sweet, bright, funny Jack, I wanted to scoop him up out of the novel and never let him go (Daily Mail)

This is a truly remarkable novel. It presents an utterly unique way to talk about love, all the while giving us a fresh, expansive eye on the world in which we live (New York Times Book Review)

Startlingly original and moving . . . Endearing and as utterly compelling as The Lovely Bones (Scotsman)

This book will break your heart . . . It is the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read (Irish Times)

I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before (Anita Shreve)

Book Description

The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Filmed as a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0316125083
• ISBN 13: 9780316125086
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336