Room [electronic resource]
Donoghue, Emma2010
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE "This is a truly remarkable novel." New York Times Book Review 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, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. 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. PRAISE FOR ROOM "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 "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 Traveller's Wife "Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time . . ." John Boyne
Main title:
Room [electronic resource] / Emma Donoghue
Author:
Donoghue, Emma, Author
Edition:
Picador 40th Anniversary
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan UK, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Born in Dublin in 1969 and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue is a writer of fiction, history, and drama for radio, stage and screen. She is best known for her international bestseller Room, shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes and winner of the Commonwealth (Canada/Caribbean), Rogers Writers' Trust and Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Awards. Her fiction ranges from contemporary (Stir-fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects) to historical (Slammerkin, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Life Mask, The Sealed Letter, Astray) to fairy-tale (Kissing the Witch). For more information, go to www.emmadonoghue.com. Follow Emma on Twitter @EDonoghueWriter
ISBN:
9781743036426
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
309127
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