Room : a novel / Emma Donoghue.
Publication details: London : Picador, 2015.Description: 400 p. ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781509803156 (pbk.) :
- 823 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | FIC DON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000414089 |
Originally published: 2010.
Film tie-in.
It's Jack's birthday and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside.
Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room is a novel like no other. '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 '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
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