Room
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Price:
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$29.99
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On Sale:
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30/08/2010
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Formats:
Hardcover
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To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It’s where he was born and where he and his Ma eat and play and learn. At night, Ma puts him safely to sleep in the wardrobe, in case
Old Nick comes.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it’s the prison where Old Nick has kept her for seven years, since she was nineteen. Through ingenuity and determination, Ma has created a life for herself and her son, but she knows it’s not enough for either of
them. Jack’s curiosity is building alongside Ma’s desperation -- and Room can’t contain either of them for much longer...
Told entirely in the inventive, often funny voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of the resilient bond between parent and child, and a brilliantly executed novel about a journey from one world to another.
Learn more about Room at www.roomthebook.com.
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Author Extras
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"I was gripped by Room as soon as I discerned its startling premise. It is an almost macabre and completely accomplished novel, one that places Emma Donoghue in the company of writers such as Hilary Mantel and Muriel Spark -- writers who address evil in their works without flinching. Room is, however, leavened by one of the most convincing portrayals of love I have come across in literature or in the world outside it. Room deserves a wide readership. It should inspire a dialogue among its readers about how a life -- how all of our lives -- can be redeemed through the telling of stories, and through ingenuity, loyalty, bravery, hope and love."
- Anne Giradini, author of Advice for Italian Boys
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"Charming, funny, artfully constructed and at times almost unbearably moving... Room is above all the most vivid, radiant and beautiful expression of maternal love I have ever read. Emma Donaghue has stared into the abyss, honoured her sources and returned with the literary equivalent of a great Madonna and Child. This book will break your heart." - IRISH TIMES
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"Somehow, via the narrative voice of Jack and his stoic and heroic making-sense in words of his small world, it breaks free of every preset category. This is a novel, and a child, that will not be confined…" - INDEPENDENT
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"As a life-affirming fable of parent-child love, and an antidote to the prurience of so much crime fiction, it's a triumph, and deserves to be a hit." - DAILY TELEGRAPH
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"Donoghue’s great strength – apart from her storytelling gift – is her emotional intelligence." - IRISH INDEPENDENT
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"Both hard to put down and profoundly affecting... Donoghue has crafted a narrative that moves as breathlessly as a serial-killer thriller while convincingly portraying, with the precision of a science-fiction novel, how a boy might believe that a room is his whole world." - SUNDAY TIMES
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"A novel like no other..." - OBSERVER
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"A celebration of the freedoms we take for granted. A gripping, moving read." - Time Out
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"The story is told with unsurpassed panache... Room will certainly be much garlanded, and it will deserve every prize it gets. Fantastic." - READERS DIGEST
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"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, author of The Pilot's Wife
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"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 and Her Fearful Symmetry
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“Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can’t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it’s potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory.”
-- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, Specimen Days, and upcoming By Nightfall
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“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. I read the book over two days, desperate to know how their story would end. Room deserves to reach the widest possible audience.”
-- John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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