Jack is now five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways, his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack's entire life has been spent in a room that measures just 12 square feet; as far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world. He shares this world with his mother, with Plant, and TV and his friends the cartoon characters - but Jack knows that nothing else he sees on the screen is real. Old Nick, on the other hand, is all too real, but only visits at night - when Jack is meant to be asleep in Wardrobe. And only Old Nick has the code to Door, which is otherwise locked...Told in Jack's voice, 'Room' is the story of a mother's love for her son, and of a young boy's innocence.
"Only a handful of authors have ever known how to get inside the mind of a child and then get what they know on paper. Henry James, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, and, more recently, Jean Stafford and Eric Kraft come to mind, and after that one gropes for names. But now they have company. Emma Donoghue's latest novel, "Room", is narrated by a 5-year-old boy so real you could swear he was sitting right beside you.... Room is so beautifully contrived that it never once seems contrived. But be warned: once you enter, you'll be Donoghue's willing prisoner right down to the last page."-- "Newsweek" "Malcolm Jones "
Title: Room (Picador 40th Anniversary Edition)
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Emma Donoghue
ISBN 13: 9781447202813
ISBN 10: 1447202813
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Macmillan
Publication Date: 1/03/2012
Place of Publication:
London,
United Kingdom
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Dewey Classification:
823.914
(DC21)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Reader Age: 16