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Room : a novel

Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.

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  • ISBN: 9781554688326
  • Physical Description ix, 321 pages ; 23 cm
  • Edition First Canadian edition.
  • Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2010.

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Room
Room
by Donoghue, Emma
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Room


To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world. . . . It's where he was born. It's where he and Ma eat and sleep and play andlearn. There are endless wonders that let loose Jack's imagination -- the snake under Bed that he constructs out of eggshells;the imaginary world projected through the TV; the coziness ofWardrobe beneath Ma's clothes, where she tucks him in safelyat night, in case Old Nick comes. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it's the prison whereshe's been held since she was nineteen -- for seven long years.Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life forhim in that eleven-by-eleven foot space. But Jack's curiosity isbuilding alongside Ma's own desperation, and she knows thatRoom cannot contain either indefinitely. . . . Told in the inventive,funny and poignant voice of Jack, Room is a celebration of resilience -- and a powerful story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.