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Room : a novel

Emma Donoghue

(Back Bay books)

Back Bay Books, 2011, c2010

1st Back Bay pbk. ed

  • : pbk

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Room : national bestseller

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"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, September 2010" -- T.p. verso

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Description

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle). Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. 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's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot space. But with Jack's curiosity building alongside her own desperation, she knows that Room cannot contain either much longer. Room is a tale at once shocking, riveting, exhilarating -- a story of unconquerable love in harrowing circumstances, and of the diamond-hard bond between a mother and her child.

by "Nielsen BookData"

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Details

  • NCID
    BB12183984
  • ISBN
    • 9780316098328
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    321, 10 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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